[erlang-questions] traversal of multiple lists (or list of lists)

[Vans S]

This seems like something for ETS table to solve. ETS tables are very flexible and there are countless ways to get them to do different things.

When in doubt for performance, you could always write a C NIF. Don't forget to compile with o3. 

    On Friday, October 21, 2016 5:41 PM, Karlo Kuna <kuna.prime@REDACTED> wrote:
 

 i want to implement what i call Select-Consume function:
take list of lists [L1 ... Ln]select some (potentially all) heads from L1 ... Ln and do something with them recurse with tails of lists where selection happened and with complete lists where there wasn't selection preserving original order end when all L1 ... Ln are exhausted or when there was no selected heads.
my worry is about performance, as far as i know in erlang there is no way to coordinate traversal of multiple lists! i looked at implementation of lists module and there i found horror of manual implementation of case combinatorics in merge/3which obviously does not scale at all. i am also aware that forwarding strategy in my case is making new list every time, which is BAD but i don't know of any other way to handle variadic function call other than passing list of arguments (in my case list of lists)
i'm wandering is my problem somewhat "hard" for erlang and what are solutions if any ??  thanks for any help 
Kuna Prime




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