[erlang-questions] How to Update List Elements A Lot

Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED
Tue Jul 21 09:55:28 CEST 2015


On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Hugo Wang <w@REDACTED> wrote:

> In other language, like C or Python, we can init an output list and then
> update its elements inline. In Erlang, what I currently do, would make a
> copy of the list every time when an element need to update. This looks not
> quite right.
>

Do you have a small snippet of an inner loop somewhere? It may be easier to
recommend an approach then. Do note that crypto-stuff in Erlang is perhaps
not the best approach since the complexity of the VM makes it harder to
account for side channels.


-- 
J.
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