On 18 October 2015 at 23:07, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't mean order of zsh versions, I meant did you try doing
> array_test before string_test within each version.

That's what I did

> String is stored as one contiguous block of bytes, so each time it exceeds
> the size of the current heap block an entire new large-enough block is
> allocated, and no previous block can never be re-used because the string
> never shrinks.

How can 5.1.1-dev-0 with no patches maintain low memory usage for strings then?

# string_test 3.3, 7.8, 9.4, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 12, 11, 12, 11,
12, last: 11

> For functions the test would also need to compare run time / CPU usage - I
> would not expect memory usage to be interesting unless the function declared
> locals.

The function test has two samples more (7 vs. 9), taken in intervals
of 3 seconds, so there is a difference.

Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski