From 91de143003c17571f028a06db23086758b16697f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: axel Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:23:32 +1000 Subject: 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 darcs-hash:20070731212332-ac50b-8f5b2e70008ddb131dc8bae3f361d8d65a294948.gz --- doc_src/count.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc_src/count.txt') 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 count function prints the number of arguments that were +The count 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. -- cgit v1.2.3