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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 10:13:29 +0100
From: Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>
Subject: Re: excessive memory usage?
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> I received this bug report last week.  Due to lack of time,
> I haven't had a chance to look into it thoroughly, but I
> just tried it out, and it did suck up (rather slowly) about
> 42 megs (temporarily) before it finally completed.
...
> ----- Forwarded message -----
...
> _wanted dictwords expl dictword \
>   compadd -M 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z} r:|=*' "$@" - "$dictwords[@]"

Change the second line to:

  compadd -M 'm:{a-zA-Z}={A-Za-z} r:|=*' -a "$@" - dictwords     

which is a good deal faster --- haven't checked the memory, but that ought
to be more manageable to.  This is why the -a option was added.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@cambridgesiliconradio.com>
Cambridge Silicon Radio, Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070