From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: The elements of enlightenment
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2022 11:44:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7Z9Y0vrQJmvy4FtLC4X1B585Ti+RrM6d_ShX511JQ+mdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <819c9630-f315-8b1c-cb52-3d3ae8de2d5c@eastlink.ca>
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:35 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> Which is best? Probably hardly matters, but still, it's good to know.
> printf is heavy, no? setopt might be lighter?
Any time you use $(...) [with one exception] zsh is going to fork an
additional process. So the circumstances in which that would be
"lighter" than doing anything entirely inside the current shell are
vanishingly small.
The exception is that $(<file) reads the file without forking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-05 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-05 15:57 Ray Andrews
2022-12-05 16:24 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-05 18:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-05 19:35 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-05 19:44 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-12-05 19:58 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-05 21:20 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-05 21:49 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-05 23:52 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 0:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06 1:34 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 18:55 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 19:45 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06 20:01 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 20:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06 20:22 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-12-06 23:52 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-07 1:04 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2022-12-05 21:49 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-05 21:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-05 22:24 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-05 23:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-12-06 1:47 ` Ray Andrews
2022-12-06 6:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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