[erlang-questions] What is the fastest way to check if a function is defined in a module?

Michał Muskała michal@REDACTED
Tue Mar 6 16:40:42 CET 2018


On 6 Mar 2018, 16:36 +0100, Richard Carlsson <carlsson.richard@REDACTED>, wrote:

>
> is_exported(M, F, A) ->
>   case erlang:module_loaded(M) of
>     false -> code:ensure_loaded(M);
>     true -> ok
>   end,
>   erlang:function_exported(M, F, A).
>
> (code:ensure_loaded() is slow compared to the fast call to erlang:module_loaded(), even if the module is already in memory).
>

I was recently wondering about this. Is there a reason code:ensure_loaded() does not short circuit using erlang:module_loaded()? It could probably even skip the request to the code server entirely in case the module is already loaded.

Michał.
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