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24.3.90; Host name completion in shell mode take 45 seconds

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From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>, Svend Sorensen <svend <at> ciffer.net>,  Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook <at> yahoo.fr>
Cc: 17284 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17284: Host name completion in shell mode take 45 seconds
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:00:07 +0200

> `buffer-substring-no-properties' is defined in C.  I can't tell
> whether this is more efficient because of that or less efficient
> because it creates a potentially giant string before starting to
> compare.  I was trying to compare starting from the far end,
> thinking that that might lead to earlier failure detection.

I got your idea.  But you also said that what we are handling here is
"typically a short string" ;-)

martin

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