On 2022-12-05 13:49, Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
That's why I tried to quantify it in related terms: on my machine
executing that thing 100 times takes over a second.
% time ( repeat 100 var=$(printf hello) )
user=0.00s system=1.06s cpu=90% total=1.178
for k v in ${(kv)options}; do
# 100X slower!!!
#list+=$( printf '%-20s %s%s\e[0m\n' $k ${color[$v]} $v )
printf -v line '%-20s %s%s\e[0m' $k ${color[$v]} $v
list+="$line"
done