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This was sized large so that `getdents` (and other platforms' equivalents) could provide large amounts of entries per syscall, but some benchmarking seems to indicate that the larger 8192 sizing doesn't actually lead to performance gains outside of edge cases like extremely large amounts of entries within a single directory (e.g. 25,000 files in one directory), and even then the gains are minimal ('./walk-8192 dir-with-tons-of-entries' ran 1.02 ± 0.34 times faster than './walk-1024 dir-with-tons-of-entries').
Note: Sizes 1024 and 2048 had similar performance characteristics, so the smaller of the two was chosen.
A general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Resources
- Introduction
- Download & Documentation
- Chapter 0 - Getting Started | ZigLearn.org
- Community
- Contributing
- Code of Conduct
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Projects
Installation
- download a pre-built binary
- install from a package manager
- build from source
- bootstrap zig for any target
License
The ultimate goal of the Zig project is to serve users. As a first-order effect, this means users of the compiler, helping programmers to write better software. Even more important, however, are the end-users.
Zig is intended to be used to help end-users accomplish their goals. Zig should be used to empower end-users, never to exploit them financially, or to limit their freedom to interact with hardware or software in any way.
However, such problems are best solved with social norms, not with software licenses. Any attempt to complicate the software license of Zig would risk compromising the value Zig provides.
Therefore, Zig is available under the MIT (Expat) License, and comes with a humble request: use it to make software better serve the needs of end-users.
This project redistributes code from other projects, some of which have other licenses besides MIT. Such licenses are generally similar to the MIT license for practical purposes. See the subdirectories and files inside lib/ for more details.