port search

[Kevin Walzer]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> 
> So.... it sounds like people want this feature, so.... it sounds like it 
> should be put into base, rather than having each GUI have to reimplement 
> it. And if "port search" was too slow, and you came up with something 
> faster, why don't we put that in base as well?
> 

PortAuthority's method works by running "port list" on startup, caching 
the data, then iterating through that when the user searches for a term. 
It's faster than "port search" only because it doesn't have to launch a 
new process of tclsh when the user searches for a term. This method make 
sense for a GUI because it reduces the number of times it has to call 
out to the command-line tool, but it doesn't represent any sort of 
improvement in the command-line tool itself. Imagine having port run 
"port list" every time it started up...the result would be slower, not 
faster.

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Kevin Walzer
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