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kaba0
on Jan 3, 2022
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Analysis of the overhead of a minimal Zig program
The bare idea of running a separate process as the condition of a loop is just disgusting though. I really don’t get why are we stuck with bash.
chrismorgan
on Jan 3, 2022
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It’s not disgusting, it’s a
superb
feature of shell scripting and a manifestation of feature composition. That you can write things like `while git diff --exit-code` is delightful.
kaba0
on Jan 4, 2022
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Yes it is good for that occasion. It is terrible for things like `test`, `true` and the like as a separate processes.
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