On Tuesday, February 14, 2017, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote: > The fish shell has no hard code limits on such things. You're essentially limited by available memory (or virtual address space).
That's what I would have guessed. But I was suddenly curious, so I thought I'd try. I created a variable, foo, that contained an array of identical items -- the letter "a". set foo a a a a... That's an awfully slow way to grow a list, but it got me started. I then added foo to itself several times. set foo $foo $foo $foo... And I ran `count` on the growing array between each repitition. I think by the second or third time, $foo contained several thousand items -- but it was still nice and snappy. Then it had about 1.4 million items, and count took a couple seconds before it printed the number. Then my computer froze just about ground to a halt -- `count` took about 10 minutes before it reported something like 55 million items. Even after killing all running fish processes on my system, everything was a little sluggish until I rebooted. I have kind of an old desktop at home, though. Your mileage may vary. > If you're doing something where such limits are a concern you should be using a different language such as C++, Java or Python. Yup, haha, if you need to do some serious programming work, pick a serious programming language. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
