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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint@fastmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimization of getarrvalue()
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:55:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1479282903.662420.789349689.2C59B522@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <161114091036.ZM22821@torch.brasslantern.com>

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016, at 09:10 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> The original code structure was
> 
>     if (A)
>       a;
>     else
>       x;
>     if (B)
>       b;
>     else if (C)
>       c;
> 
...
> This means that in the new structure, b never happens when A.  In the
> old code we might allocate the array ('') and then truncate to (), but
> in the new code we allocate ('') and then do nothing.

I was aware of nular being something different because tests failed
(it's an easy thing to find though, but I chosen to signal problem
instead of solving it), however as the two if blocks are not connected
with else, nular can be, as you said, "again" truncated to 0 length.
That I didn't foresee.

-- 
  Sebastian Gniazdowski
  psprint@fastmail.com


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-16  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CGME20161108201233epcas1p1e2900e2d67af8b8558ebdb70eb7ad480@epcas1p1.samsung.com>
2016-11-08 20:11 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2016-11-08 21:58   ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-09  7:11   ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-09 11:42   ` Peter Stephenson
2016-11-09 16:03     ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-14 12:32       ` Jun T.
2016-11-14 13:15         ` Jun T.
2016-11-14 13:57         ` Peter Stephenson
2016-11-14 15:35           ` Jun T.
2016-11-14 17:10           ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-16  7:55             ` Sebastian Gniazdowski [this message]
2016-11-15 12:28         ` Peter Stephenson
2016-11-15 19:57         ` Peter Stephenson
2016-11-15 21:11           ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-16 14:06           ` Jun T.
2016-11-16 16:14             ` Jun T.
2016-11-16 18:50             ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-21 12:30               ` Jun T.
2016-11-24  0:55                 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-24 11:49                   ` Jun T.
2016-11-29  6:11                     ` Array slices that don't exist [was Optimization of getarrvalue()] Bart Schaefer
2016-11-29  9:34                       ` Peter Stephenson

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