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[PATCH] sh-script: use completion-table-with-cache to improve performance

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: yikai <at> z1k.dev, 59678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59678: [PATCH] sh-script: use completion-table-with-cache to improve performance
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:30:04 -0500

>> I found that the auto-completion on .sh files (with company-mode) was
>> pretty slow (takes several seconds).  It turns out that company-mode
>> would call the capf function with 'metadata action for each
>> candidate, where each function call would need to list all the
>> cmds. In this patch, I modified the code to use
>> completion-table-with-cache which fixes the problem for me.
>
> Stefan, any comments?

Looks OK to me.  The description of the problem looks concerning, tho:
if Company really calls the completion table with `metadata` once per
candidate, then there's a bug in company.


        Stefan

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