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Re: profile prompt rendering time

Yes! that'd be neat Richo. I was thinking of doing that to the right
prompt.

Thanks Bart. I'll try to work that on a custom prompt.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Richo Healey <richo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13/07/16 11:17 -0300, Filipe Silva wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> short version: How can I profile each rendering of a zsh prompt?
>>
>> long version: I've recently came across a plugin (rupa/z) that, when
>> installed, hit my zsh prompt rendering time by a noticeable amount.
>>
>> When I say prompt rendering time, I'm not refering to amount of time that
>> it takes for the first zsh prompt to appear when I issue, for an example,
>> `exec zsh` (that is achieve by issuing `time zsh -i -c "print -n"`).
>>
>> I'm talking about the time that it takes for zsh to give me another prompt
>> once that it is fully loaded. In other words, I want to achieve this:
>>
>> ~ $ ls (when i hit enter, start counting)
>> code/ notes/ file.txt
>> ~ $ (stop counting when this prompt appears. show me elapsed time)
>>
>> Is that a way to do that?
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>>
>> Filipe Silva
>>
>
> You could do something fairly janky and just wrap your whole prompt in a
> function that emits the prompt, and time(1)'s itself.
>
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