From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: accessing array by index very slow
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:03:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230416090342.dztvzcnzpbyukgfq@chazelas.org> (raw)
$ zsh -c 'a=($(seq 1000000)); time (for ((i=0;i<10000;i++)) { : "${a[1]}"; })'
( for ((i=0; i<10000; i++)) do; : "${a[1]}"; done; ) 0.07s user 0.03s system 96% cpu 0.102 total
$ zsh -c 'a=($(seq 1000000)); time (for ((i=0;i<10000;i++)) { : "${a[999999]}"; })'
( for ((i=0; i<10000; i++)) do; : "${a[999999]}"; done; ) 14.56s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 14.616 total
Accessing array elements via their index is very slow,
especially for large index values.
Comparing with other shells:
~$ bash -c 'a=($(seq 1000000)); time (for ((i=0;i<10000;i++)) { : "${a[999999]}"; })'
real 0m0.078s
user 0m0.077s
sys 0m0.000s
~$ ksh -c 'a=($(seq 1000000)); time (for ((i=0;i<10000;i++)) { : "${a[999999]}"; })'
real 0m00.02s
user 0m00.02s
sys 0m00.00s
cachegrind reveals the time is spent in arrlen_ge(), as zsh
needs to walk through the whole array to determine whether
999999 is past the end of the array or not.
Why doesn't zsh record the length of arrays to avoid that
gymnastic (and speed up $#array expansion)?
--
Stephane
next reply other threads:[~2023-04-16 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-16 9:03 Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2023-04-16 9:10 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2023-04-16 9:19 ` Sebastian Gniazdowski
2023-04-16 15:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-16 22:03 ` Mikael Magnusson
2023-04-18 2:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2023-04-30 19:26 ` Bart Schaefer
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