Just a general recommendation from someone who keeps a long history: if your shell loads a histfile, don't let it grow unbounded. It isn't massive, but there's

Just a general recommendation from someone who keeps a long history: if your shell loads a histfile, don't let it grow unbounded. It isn't massive, but there's real shell startup latency associated with loading lines from your histfile. A few hundred isn't really noteworth, but tens and eventually hundreds of thousands of lines can add up. (In my case, i store them in a database and I synthesize histfiles from the db. Keeping the permanent storage in a separate file also probably works.)