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On 2020-03-28 7:02 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> It means Zsh from zsh-bin doesn't require any files from outside of
> its installation directory to function. Perhaps "self-contained" would
> be a better word.
That has to be good.  Self-contained and modular, no threads running 
here and there.

> Zsh from zsh-bin cannot load user-defined compiled modules. There
>    no way to guarantee that user-defined modules have been linked
>    with the same libc as `zsh`, so it's unsafe to load them. This
>    limitation likely cannot be removed.

What are the consequences of this for an ordinary user?