gnuplot: Improve startup performance
Before executing the gnuplot executable the environment variable `GDFONTPATH` is populated with a list of font directories, which is obtained from `fc-list`. In that process we iterated over each line and called `dirname` on it, which introduces a performance hit for loading and executing the external executable `dirname` every time. The new version avoids the loop. The author of this patch measured a 42 fold performance improvement: old version: $ time ./gnuplot_old/bin/gnuplot -e '' real 0m3.828s user 0m0.392s sys 0m0.465s new version: $ time ./gnuplot_new2/bin/gnuplot -e '' real 0m0.091s user 0m0.112s sys 0m0.014s The correctness of the value of `GDFONTPATH` was confirmed with the following command and comparing its output between versions: $ gnuplot -e 'print system("echo $GDFONTPATH")'
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p=( $(for n in $(fc-list | sed -r -e 's|^([^:]+):.*$|\1|'); do echo $(dirname "$n"); done | sort | uniq) )
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p=( $(fc-list : file | sed "s@/[^/]*: @@" | sort -u) )
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IFS=:
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export GDFONTPATH="${GDFONTPATH}${GDFONTPATH:+:}${p[*]}"
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unset IFS p
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