[erlang-questions] foldl vs foldr and ++

[Håkan Mattsson]

Yes, it has the same effect.

/Håkan

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Tim Watson <watson.timothy@REDACTED> wrote:
> I compiled the module with erlc and ran it via 'escript lr.beam' - doesn't
> that have the same effect?
>
> On 15 Jan 2014, at 23:51, Kelly Wong <kjw0188@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Did you make sure to run it with -mode(compile). ?  If you don't the script
> will be interpreted, and could throw off performance tests.
>
> Kelly Wong
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Tim Watson <watson.timothy@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>>
>> I tweaked your module to run via escript (just adding a simple main/1 and
>> printing out the results of timer:tc), and I see a bit gap between foldl and
>> foldr, whilst the hand coded version based on lists:reverse/1 is plenty fast
>> enough:
>>
>> t4@REDACTED:test $ escript lr.beam 10000000
>> foldl: 679.103ms
>> foldr: 43609.149ms
>> reverse: 909.946ms
>> t4@REDACTED:test $ evm info
>> R16B03 compiled for x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2, 64bit
>>
>> On Friday, 11 May 2012 10:27:29 UTC+1, Ulf Wiger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11 May 2012, at 04:02, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
>>>
>>> > This can be written more efficiently, but it's best of all
>>> > just not to reverse the string in the first place.  Keep
>>> > the code at a level where you can see what's going on well
>>> > enough to spot the really _big_ efficiency gains.
>>>
>>> And this is of course the really important difference between
>>> foldr() and foldl():
>>>
>>> - in which order do you want to process the list?
>>> - if you build a list in the accumulator, in which order do you want it?
>>>
>>> For most practical purposes, one should assume that they
>>> both both do their job efficiently.
>>>
>>> BR,
>>> Ulf
>>>
>>> Ulf Wiger, Co-founder & Developer Advocate, Feuerlabs Inc.
>>> http://feuerlabs.com
>>>
>>>
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