Re: The elements of enlightenment

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 2022-12-05 13:49, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> That's why I tried to quantify it in related terms: on my machine
> executing that thing 100 times takes over a second.
>
>      % time ( repeat 100 var=$(printf hello) )
>      user=0.00s system=1.06s cpu=90% total=1.178

>      for k v in ${(kv)options}; do
> 	# 100X slower!!!
> 	#list+=$( printf '%-20s %s%s\e[0m\n' $k ${color[$v]} $v )
> 	printf -v line '%-20s %s%s\e[0m' $k ${color[$v]} $v
> 	list+="$line"
>      done
>
Even buried back in the entire function, where the difference is 
somewhat swamped by the time the other code takes to run,  it's still 
100X faster doing it your way.  Sheesh, it's quite astonishing. I 
probably wouldn't understand the answer anyway but I hafta wonder why 
this forking is so necessary.  But for now 'print -v var' is my new friend.