more startup time
Guy Harris
guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Sat Jan 28 12:25:27 AEST 1984
> It takes TIME to wade through all those definitions for all those
> weird terminals that nobody uses. An 'optimization' would be to
> move all the termcap entries for your common terminals to the
> front of the file. More (and vi) should then startup noticeably faster.
The "termcap" source directory on 4.xBSD contains a "reorder" script which
does exactly this; the details are explained in a READ_ME file in that
directory.
Guy Harris
{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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