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+The usage of external scripts causes some slowdowns. (forking new processes, running interpreted scripts,...)
+It can be interesting to keep an eye on this, though I don't expect major problems.
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+** History file size/performance
+each new pageload -> fopen(history_file, "a"), fwrite one line, fclose.
+I use utf8, so unless you use characters that are "special" (chinese etc) each character takes 1 byte.
+So, assume each entry is about 80 chars, you visit 100 pages per day (?), and you wonder when your history file will be 50MB big:
+(50 * 1000 * 1000 ) / ( 80 * 100 ) = 6250 days or 17 years.
+There is code to run a benchmark in the 'extra' dir.  For results & interpretation, see http://dieter.plaetinck.be/poor_mans_dmenu_benchmark