[svk-devel] "svk info" latency vs. vc-svk.el: pain vs. gain

[John Peacock]

Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> I've strace'd 'svk info' and it spends most of those four seconds just
> looking for and parsing Perl modules, so there's no easy fix.  Perhaps
> SVK could make more extensive use of deferred loading, e.g. C<use autouse>?

If you have the RAM to spare, you could try using PPerl, so that SVK 
only needs to load once.  In fact, there is a page on the WIKI with the 
instructions and caveats:

	http://svk.elixus.org/?SVKAndPPerl

HTH

John

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