patch 8.1.0632: using sign group names is inefficient commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7a2d9892b7158edf8dc48e9bcaaae70a40787b37 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Mon Dec 24 20:23:49 2018 +0100 patch 8.1.0632: using sign group names is inefficient Problem: Using sign group names is inefficient. Solution: Store group names in a hash table and use a reference to them. Also remove unnecessary use of ":exe" from the tests. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, closes #3715)

README_src.txt for version 8.1 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.1-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!