From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Source mangling in $functions_source and typeset -f
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:14:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YVUsygEcVynAq8t6pdUxdAr5djGcsktQYiCyFbZufSMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66a84643-de4f-ef74-4664-d2400f74f2e6@eastlink.ca>
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 11:26 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2021-11-27 9:47 a.m., Bart Schaefer wrote:
> >
> > With the exception of the contents of strings (including
> > here-documents), the original source of a function is not kept in
> > shell memory.
> That's most interesting, it seems circular so there must be a good
> reason for it
The parse is stored in a bytecode format (the same one used when
writing a file with zcompile) so:
It's much smaller than the source (usually), and takes up less memory.
It's much closer to being directly executable than the source, and
therefore faster.
Zach's use case is unusual; there's typically not any reason to "preserve more".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-27 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 8:01 Zach Riggle
2021-11-27 17:47 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-11-27 19:25 ` Ray Andrews
2021-11-27 19:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-11-27 20:09 ` Ray Andrews
2021-11-27 20:14 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-11-27 21:56 ` Ray Andrews
2021-11-29 16:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-29 17:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-12-01 6:53 ` Daniel Shahaf
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