patch 8.2.3851: Vim9: overhead when comparing string, dict or function Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/265f811f5a2dac81d9698f5202a661a04ed095f1 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Dec 19 12:33:05 2021 +0000 patch 8.2.3851: Vim9: overhead when comparing string, dict or function Problem: Vim9: overhead when comparing string, dict or function. Solution: Call the intented compare function directly. Refactor to avoid duplicated code.

" Invoked with the name "vim.pot" and a list of Vim script names.
" Converts them to a .js file, stripping comments, so that xgettext works.
" Javascript is used because, like Vim, it accepts both single and double
" quoted strings.

set shortmess+=A

for name in argv()[1:]
  exe 'edit ' .. fnameescape(name)

  " Strip comments
  g/^\s*"/s/.*//

  " Write as .js file, xgettext recognizes them
  exe 'w! ' .. fnamemodify(name, ":t:r") .. ".js"
endfor

quit