From 964caad8760807b9487a594546e53e8f2bcba0e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Muh Muhten <muh.muhten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:18:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Faster limit/2 by saving an empty call in the loop

---
 src/builtin.jq | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/builtin.jq b/src/builtin.jq
index a6cdabe58a..49caae2463 100644
--- a/src/builtin.jq
+++ b/src/builtin.jq
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def until(cond; next):
          if cond then . else (next|_until) end;
      _until;
 def limit($n; exp):
-    if $n > 0 then label $out | foreach exp as $item ($n; .-1; $item, if . <= 0 then break $out else empty end)
+    if $n > 0 then label $out | foreach exp as $item ($n; .-1; if . > 0 then $item else $item, break $out end)
     elif $n == 0 then empty
     else exp end;
 # range/3, with a `by` expression argument