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From: Fung-Chai Lim <fclim@singnet.com.sg>
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Subject: Re: Autoloading of compctl from dbm database file.
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In-Reply-To: <10492.199612011417@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from "Zefram" at Dec 1, 96 02:17:52 pm
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In <10492.199612011417@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
on Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:17:52 +0000 (GMT)
Zefram <zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> writes:

> >Having aliases and functions in the database can be useful.  Remember my
> >example, putting
> >	ZDBFILE=database
> >	zdb -auf
> >at the top of any shell script is enough to access aliases and functions.
> 
> . ~/.zshenv
> 
> has much the same effect.

Sourcing the startup files does a lot of parsing.  With autoloading,
the parsing is delayed until needed.  Or, with binary databases,
loading the pre-built parse-tree is delayed until needed.

Regards,
fclim.