[erlang-questions] Fetching several ets keys

[ori brost]

The question is whether there is any way that I can avoid the
"erlang-to-c call" cost and do these 4 lookups (i.e. with one ets call
do lookup for all 4).

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Hynek Vychodil <hynek@REDACTED> wrote:
> This code will cause table full scan which usually will be far slower than just
> [ V || K <- ["A","B","C","D"], V <- ets:lookup(Tid, K) ]
> except very small tables full scan will not be good idea.
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ahmed Omar <spawn.think@REDACTED> wrote:
>> ets:select(Tid, [{{'$1','$2'},[{'==','$1',X}],['$_']}|| X<-
>> ["A","B","C","D"]]).
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM, dmitry kolesnikov <dmkolesnikov@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You could try
>>> ets:select or qlc interface.
>>>
>>> It table is not big enough then qlc and custom fold function would work:
>>>
>>> Q=qlc:q([ X || X <- ets:table(mytab)]),
>>> qlc:fold(FoldFun, [], Q)
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Dmitry >-|-|-*>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9.2.2012, at 11.40, ori brost <oribrost@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Is there any way in ets to fetch values for several keys in 1 call?
>>> > i.e. something like
>>> >
>>> > ets:multi_fetch(Tid, ["A","B","C","D"]) % will fetch all entries with
>>> > keys A, B, C, D
>>> > _______________________________________________
>>> > erlang-questions mailing list
>>> > erlang-questions@REDACTED
>>> > http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> erlang-questions mailing list
>>> erlang-questions@REDACTED
>>> http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> erlang-questions mailing list
>> erlang-questions@REDACTED
>> http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Hynek Vychodil
> BI consultant
>
> GoodData
> náměstí 28. října 1104/17, 602 00, Brno - Černá Pole
> Office:   +420 530 50 7704
> E-mail:  hynek@REDACTED
> Web:     www.gooddata.com