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# 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). --------- Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
Nushell core libraries and plugins
These sub-crates form both the foundation for Nu and a set of plugins which extend Nu with additional functionality.
Foundational libraries are split into two kinds of crates:
- Core crates - those crates that work together to build the Nushell language engine
- Support crates - a set of crates that support the engine with additional features like JSON support, ANSI support, and more.
Plugins are likewise also split into two types:
- Core plugins - plugins that provide part of the default experience of Nu, including access to the system properties, processes, and web-connectivity features.
- Extra plugins - these plugins run a wide range of different capabilities like working with different file types, charting, viewing binary data, and more.