[erlang-questions] generators/iterators

[Damien Morton]

Im new to Erlang - so its just that - a guess. But ... when I imagine 
what the machinery for a message send is, compared to what I know the 
machinery for a function call is, at last in broad strokes, if a fun 
call isnt faster, it should be.

The speed is one thing - but I think the more important reason is that 
the fun call subsumes the message receive, that is, the 
generator-as-repeated-fun call can implement receive functionality 
easily if desired, but it would tend to be awkward to do it the other 
way around.
>> I guess calling a fun is much faster than sending messages between 
>> processes.
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> Well that'd certainly be a good reason. I don't know that I've seen the
> numbers. I have seen stuff that suggests calling a fun is a bunch slower
> than calling a defined module-member function.
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