Re: Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file.

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@nbn.com>]

Seems to me that this idea has "module" written on it, in large flashing
purple neon letters.

On Nov 30,  4:40pm, Zefram wrote:
> Subject: Re: Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file.
> 
> We already have a function autoloading facility.  Aliases are cheap to
> store, usually short, and people don't have so many of them.  I think
> it is therefore not worth adding the database autoloading for them.
> However, a dbm database may be a good solution to the problem of
> autoloading compctls.

Compctls aren't very expensive to store either, are they?  The slow
part of loading compctls and functions is parsing.  If we're going
to introduce a database, we might as well also introduce a binary
storage format and put pre-"compiled" functions, compctls, etc. in
there.  Using a database just to store text that zsh then has to parse
and execute anyway doesn't seem very helpful.

Further -- I admit I haven't tried the patch -- doesn't attempting to
autoload compctls, even from a database, slow down default completion
a lot?