[erlang-questions] naive execution of guards

[Toby Thain]

On 12-Dec-06, at 1:35 PM, Thomas Lindgren wrote:

>
> --- "Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was curious to see whether the compiler would
>> optimize away repeated
>> use of the length/1 guard, e.g in the following
>> code:
> ...
>> I'm sure it's tricky, and I don't know if the above
>> reasons are strong
>> enough.
>
> Actually, this optimization is ordinary elimination of
> common subexpressions, and so should be relatively
> straightforward to implement.

Especially since the subexpressions are already guaranteed side- 
effect free (right?)
:)
--Toby

>
> Best,
> Thomas
>
>
>
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