optimization ?

Vladimir Sekissov svg@REDACTED
Tue Apr 22 09:43:30 CEST 2003


Good day,

cpressey> > 		    dirs(Top, Tail, T ++ Acc)
cpressey>                                     ^^^^^^^^
cpressey> This is probably one reason that it's kind of slow.  To perform T ++
cpressey> Acc, the runtime has to search for the end of the T list, which is
cpressey> expensive compared to a simple cons.  You might want to try [T|Acc]...

According to fprof function spends most time in {file,read_link_info}:

                             CNT  ACC
{test,dirs,3}		     1086 2365.887
{file,read_link_info,1}	     1010 2152.686
{erlang,'++',2},	     1085 24.044

Best Regards,
Vladimir Sekissov



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