`gz()` is inefficient

Question

`gz()` is inefficient

Rudxain opened this issue a year ago · comments

Ricardo Fernández Serrata commented a year ago

It uses wc -c which iterates over every single byte, when counting the size. I know wc is portable, but I suggest we use an alternative that does a syscall to fetch the size directly from the filesystem

Mathias Bynens · Answer 1 · Thu Mar 16 2023 05:31:59 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Mind sending a patch?

Ricardo Fernández Serrata · Answer 2 · Thu Mar 16 2023 08:12:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Mind sending a patch?

Ok, I'll open a PR that uses stat. I have no idea about its portability, but it seems simple and fast enough.

BTW, I have this

alias sizeof="stat -c '%s'"

In my .aliases file. It seems the fs function is more feature-rich, but I like to keep things simple (sometimes)