nushell/crates/nu-command
Ian Manske 0918050ac8
Deprecate group in favor of chunks (#13377)
# Description
The name of the `group` command is a little unclear/ambiguous.
Everything I look at it, I think of `group-by`. I think `chunks` more
clearly conveys what the `group` command does. Namely, it divides the
input list into chunks of a certain size. For example,
[`slice::chunks`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.chunks)
has the same name. So, this PR adds a new `chunks` command to replace
the now deprecated `group` command.

The `chunks` command is a refactored version of `group`. As such, there
is a small performance improvement:
```nushell
# $data is a very large list
> bench { $data | chunks 2 } --rounds 30 | get mean
474ms 921µs 190ns

# deprecation warning was disabled here for fairness
> bench { $data | group 2 } --rounds 30 | get mean
592ms 702µs 440ns



> bench { $data | chunks 200 } --rounds 30 | get mean
374ms 188µs 318ns

> bench { $data | group 200 } --rounds 30 | get mean
481ms 264µs 869ns 



> bench { $data | chunks 1 } --rounds 30 | get mean
642ms 574µs 42ns

> bench { $data | group 1 } --rounds 30 | get mean
981ms 602µs 513ns
```

# User-Facing Changes
- `group` command has been deprecated in favor of new `chunks` command.
- `chunks` errors when given a chunk size of `0` whereas `group` returns
chunks with one element.

# Tests + Formatting
Added tests for `chunks`, since `group` did not have any tests.

# After Submitting
Update book if necessary.
2024-07-16 03:49:00 +00:00
..
src Deprecate group in favor of chunks (#13377) 2024-07-16 03:49:00 +00:00
tests Deprecate group in favor of chunks (#13377) 2024-07-16 03:49:00 +00:00
Cargo.toml add str deunicode command (#13270) 2024-06-29 16:12:34 -05:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907) 2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00

This crate contains the majority of our commands

We allow ourselves to move some of the commands in nu-command to nu-cmd-* crates as needed.

Internal Nushell crate

This crate implements components of Nushell and is not designed to support plugin authors or other users directly.