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Subject: Re: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Well, it is trivial to look for mandb file ... unfortunately, the number of
>manual pages is about 4000

Better read the index file once, and cache it in an associative array.

-zefram