[erlang-questions] flash clauses vs nested clauses

[Zheng Zhibin]

I think the first style of coding would be faster.


Thanks and regards,
郑智斌(Witeman) 

在 2012-4-5，下午11:22， Pablo Platt 写道：

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a difference in performance between using nested clauses and flat clauses
> or is the compiler smart enough to produce the same optimizations?
> 
> For example:
> 
> somefun(a1, b1, c1) ->
>     res1;
> somefun(a1, b1, c2) ->
>     res2;
> somefun(a1, b1, c3) ->
>     res3;
> somefun(a1, b2, c1) ->
>     res4;
> somefun(a1, b2, c2) ->
>     res5;
> somefun(a2, b1, c1) ->
>     res6;
> somefun(a2, b1, c2) ->
>     res7;
> ...
> somefun(a10, b10, c10) ->
>     res10.
> 
> 
> and
> 
> somefun(a1, B, C) ->
>     case B of
>         b1 ->
>             case C of
>                 c1 -> res1;
> 
>                 c2 -> res2;
> 
>                 c3 -> res3
> 
>             end;
>         b2 ->
>             case C of
>                 C1 -> res4;
> 
>                 C2 -> res5
>             end
> 
>      end;
> somefun(a2, B, C) ->
>     ...
> 
> Thanks
> 
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