Optimization Ideas

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hoelzro edited this page Sep 16, 2014 · 9 revisions

How much overhead do we incur from parsing ConfigDefault.pm every time?
How much overhead do we incur from climbing up the directory tree, looking for a project ackrc every time?
Can we make use of d_type in readdir to eliminate calls to stat?
Why does searching a single large file specified on the command line take so long?
Test more things in timing script
- Large files (with and without matches)
- Context (-A, -B, -C)