[erlang-questions] list comprehensions speed

[Ivan Uemlianin]

There's also lists:keyfind/3 you could try

   http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/lists.html#keyfind-3

I think the lists are written in C, so they should be fast.

Ivan


On 25/02/2014 13:08, Oleg wrote:
>    Hello.
>
> I'm erlang newbie. Don't beat me, please :-), if this question is obvious.
>
> I have a list of key-value pairs:
>
> A=[{"name1", 1}, {"name2", 77}, {"name3", 33}, {"name4", 234}].
>
> What is faster:
>
> [ Value || {Name, Value} <- A, string:equal(Name, "name3")].
>
> Or:
>
> get_value(Key, []) ->
>    [].
> get_value(Key, [H|T]) ->
>    {Name, Value} = H,
>    case string:equal(Name, Key) of
>      true ->
>        [Value];
>      false ->
>        get_value(Key, T)
>    end.
>
> start() ->
>    get_value("name3", A).
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