Optimize ~/.bashrc.d/* loading time to make new terminals load faster

[jankeromnes]

I added a few date -Ins into a ~/.bashrc on Gitpod, and found that loading all $HOME/.bashrc.d/* scripts:

workspace-images/base/Dockerfile

Line 54 in baa144a

(echo; echo "for i in \$(ls \$HOME/.bashrc.d/*); do source \$i; done"; echo) >> /home/gitpod/.bashrc

... can take 313ms (sample size = 1)

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Adding a few more date -Ins showed me that the longest-running $HOME/.bashrc.d/* scripts could be:

workspace-images/full/Dockerfile

Lines 158 to 160 in baa144a

	&& { echo; \
	echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"'; \
	echo 'eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"'; } >> /home/gitpod/.bashrc.d/60-python \

... 109ms (sample size = 1)

workspace-images/full/Dockerfile

Line 188 in baa144a

&& echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*' >> /home/gitpod/.bashrc.d/70-ruby

... 116ms (sample size = 1)

[axonasif]

Hi @jankeromnes! I could load everything in $HOME/.bashrc.d within just 0.001s with source $HOME/.bashrc.d/*. While this takes lot more cpu cycles and invocations of source command over the unnecessary for loop with ls, thus making it kinda slower 😓

Here are some logs 😄

gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ time (for i in $(ls $HOME/.bashrc.d/*); do source $i; done)

real    0m0.197s
user    0m0.151s
sys     0m0.083s
gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ time (source $HOME/.bashrc.d/*)
real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s
gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ time (source $HOME/.bashrc.d/*)

real    0m0.001s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s
gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ time (for i in $(ls $HOME/.bashrc.d/*); do source $i; done)

real    0m0.239s
user    0m0.175s
sys     0m0.061s
gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ time (for i in $(ls $HOME/.bashrc.d/*); do source $i; done)

real    0m0.209s
user    0m0.151s
sys     0m0.096s
gitpod /workspace/workspace-images $ 

Edit: Well nope, sorry, my bad. source only takes one filename at a time, missed that point.