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Re: [PATCH] readhistfile: avoid thousands of lseek(2) syscalls via ftell()

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Michael Stapelberg <michael+zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] readhistfile: avoid thousands of lseek(2) syscalls via ftell()
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 21:54:00 -0800
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:48 PM Michael Stapelberg
<michael+zsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Before this change, zsh startup time was dominated by lseek(2) system calls on
> the history file

Curious.  I would have thought stdio buffering would mask most of the
need for lseek()ing by ftell().

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