[erlang-questions] naive execution of guards

[Thomas Lindgren]

--- "Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)" <ulf.wiger@REDACTED>
wrote:

> 
> I was curious to see whether the compiler would
> optimize away repeated
> use of the length/1 guard, e.g in the following
> code:
...
> I'm sure it's tricky, and I don't know if the above
> reasons are strong
> enough.

Actually, this optimization is ordinary elimination of
common subexpressions, and so should be relatively
straightforward to implement.

Best,
Thomas



 
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