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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:49:21 +0100
From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Updated: fortune-1.99.1-1
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Hi Yitzckak,

On 13-Jan-2005 21:27, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

>   Achilles:  Don't tell me you believe in fortune-telling!
>   Tortoise:  No...but they say it works even if you don't believe in it.
>      -- GEB, Hofstadter
>
>I've made a new version of fortune available for installation.
>  
>
Thanks for bracing the storm and doing this!

One thing, though: this version is much, much slower than the previous 
one. It takes around a second to produce a fortune, while the old one 
ran pretty much instantaneously. (This is on a high end XP box.)

When I run "strace fortune", the new version produces 16,771 lines of 
output. The old version produces 467 lines...
I won't attach it to this message, for size reasons.

You might think: what's the big deal, a second to run fortune, but I'm 
running fortune from my prompt(*), so I now have to wait up to a second 
for my prompt to appear.

– Michael

(*): This is using zsh. I basically have the following lines in my .zshrc:

# Load color arrays
autoload colors
colors

# Fortune before every prompt
precmd()
{
echo -n "\n$fg[blue]"
fortune -a -s # but think about the children...
echo -n "$reset_color"
}


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