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Re: HISTSIZE
- X-seq: zsh-workers 1316
- From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xxxxxxx>
- To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: HISTSIZE
- Date: 10 Jun 1996 21:10:30 +0200
- Cc: (Hrvoje Niksic), zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- In-reply-to: Zoltan Hidvegi's message of Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:05:20 +0200 (MET DST)
- References: <199606101905.VAA07171@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Sender: hniksic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I wonder how difficult would it be to patch hist.c in such a way that
> > the actual size of the history list changes dynamically, HISTSIZE
> > being only an upper limit to that change.
>
> Zsh uses a HISTSIZE long array to store history entries. gethistent(X) is
> defined as (histentarr+((X)%histentct)) (with proper bounds checking at
> apropriate places). This is usually the most compact representation. A
> linked list can be used but then the pointers would require extra memory.
> histentarr is almost full in most cases since it is filled from $HISTFILE
> upon invocation. Most people do like to limit the number of stored history
> events since loading and saving big histories takes a long time. Of course
> SAVEHIST can be smaller than HISTSIZE but most people do not issue more
> than 1000 commands from one shell so HISTSIZE = SAVEHIST + 1000 should be
> enough.
Of course one must be able to limit the number of history items. But
if you want to unlimit it (which I like to do) by setting it to
100,000 or to a 1,000,000, is where the problems arise.
As far as I have seen, bash also represents the history list as an
array, but it starts off with a default size and realloc's it
dynamically each 50 or so commands. This way HISTSIZE is only a limit,
not a memory consumer.
So: gethistent(X) would still be equally defined, but the array would
change its size dynamically. Is this doable?
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