On Wed, Nov 18 2020, Drew DeVault wrote: > On Wed Nov 18, 2020 at 12:16 PM EST, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> It is unclear from this description alone why this is needed. The >> seller of this change needs to emphasize how this is better than >> setting the variable to "0" (do not autocorrect). My guess is that >> some users do not even need the suggestion of correct spelling when >> they made a typo? > > This is one reason. Another is that spell checking can be > computationally expensive, and take an annoyingly long time on low-end > devices. As an aside it would be interesting if you're in a position to test it whether it's the suggestion code itself that's so expensive, or e.g. the stat()-ing on "git xyz" looking for "git-xyz" in $PATH. I if it's FS-limited that there's easy optimization opportunities there.
