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authorAndreas Herrmann <andreash87@gmx.ch>2016-01-11 11:36:50 +0100
committerAndreas Herrmann <andreash87@gmx.ch>2016-01-11 15:37:07 +0100
commit79e145a970b476eaac79e92e1952232b9892e509 (patch)
treebebf68ab8a4689ff82f75f38866f0f2475d0b092 /pkgs/development/python-modules/GitPython
parent7b0613d51e072708b07de94a574ad7f0a128e450 (diff)
gnuplot: Improve startup performance
Before executing the gnuplot executable the environment variable `GDFONTPATH` is populated with a list of font directories, which is obtained from `fc-list`. In that process we iterated over each line and called `dirname` on it, which introduces a performance hit for loading and executing the external executable `dirname` every time. The new version avoids the loop. The author of this patch measured a 42 fold performance improvement: old version: $ time ./gnuplot_old/bin/gnuplot -e '' real 0m3.828s user 0m0.392s sys 0m0.465s new version: $ time ./gnuplot_new2/bin/gnuplot -e '' real 0m0.091s user 0m0.112s sys 0m0.014s The correctness of the value of `GDFONTPATH` was confirmed with the following command and comparing its output between versions: $ gnuplot -e 'print system("echo $GDFONTPATH")'
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