nushell/crates/nu_plugin_example/src
Ian Manske 9996e4a1f8
Shrink the size of Expr (#12610)
# Description
Continuing from #12568, this PR further reduces the size of `Expr` from
64 to 40 bytes. It also reduces `Expression` from 128 to 96 bytes and
`Type` from 32 to 24 bytes.

This was accomplished by:
- for `Expr` with multiple fields (e.g., `Expr::Thing(A, B, C)`),
merging the fields into new AST struct types and then boxing this struct
(e.g. `Expr::Thing(Box<ABC>)`).
- replacing `Vec<T>` with `Box<[T]>` in multiple places. `Expr`s and
`Expression`s should rarely be mutated, if at all, so this optimization
makes sense.

By reducing the size of these types, I didn't notice a large performance
improvement (at least compared to #12568). But this PR does reduce the
memory usage of nushell. My config is somewhat light so I only noticed a
difference of 1.4MiB (38.9MiB vs 37.5MiB).

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Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-04-24 15:46:35 +00:00
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commands Shrink the size of Expr (#12610) 2024-04-24 15:46:35 +00:00
example.rs Change PluginCommand API to be more like Command (#12279) 2024-03-27 11:59:57 +01:00
lib.rs Add GetSpanContents engine call (#12439) 2024-04-09 10:02:17 -04:00
main.rs Change PluginCommand API to be more like Command (#12279) 2024-03-27 11:59:57 +01:00