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| author |  axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2007-08-01 07:23:32 +1000 |
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| committer | axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2007-08-01 07:23:32 +1000 |
| commit | 91de143003c17571f028a06db23086758b16697f (patch) | |
| tree | 87629e0ffcf45655fb80bde8aeb909db4f1e366d /doc_src/count.txt | |
| parent | 748d726ddfb068fe10c54cf5c83f76fba87f9c18 (diff) | |
Replace the count function with a builtin for performance reasons. The count function used at least two forks, which was noticable on systems such as OS X with slow forks
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/count.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/count.txt b/doc_src/count.txt index ca4b5d04..8b6b14c6 100644 --- a/doc_src/count.txt +++ b/doc_src/count.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ \subsection count-description Description -The <tt>count</tt> function prints the number of arguments that were +The <tt>count</tt> builtin prints the number of arguments that were passed to it. This is usually used to find out how many elements an environment variable array contains, but this is not the only potential usage for the count command. |