[erlang-questions] maps iterator

[Sergej Jurečko]

Oh ok. I was under the impression maps have sorted keys.


Sergej

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 10:32 AM, zxq9 <zxq9@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 September 2015 10:12:55 Sergej Jurečko wrote:
> > Something like gb_trees:iterator_from
> > If you're traversing the entire map then to_list is fine (which fold,map
> > use). But if you wish to only traverse a subset of k/v pairs in a large
> map
> > it is quite wasteful.
>
> Map keys are unordered. GB tree keys are ordered.
>
> If you are using maps then something like iterator_from already does not
> fit. But maybe you have some subset of keys you want to traverse? That is
> what maps:with/2 and maps:without/2 are for. (I have no idea how efficient
> with/2 or without/2 are in gigantic maps in R18 -- but I imagine these are
> the functions that will be optimized to death eventually if anything is, so
> it is what I would write code against today. Unless you actually do just
> need gb_trees...)
>
> In some cases having maps:partition/2 would be nice, but there are no
> cases I can think of where an equivalent to iterator_from makes sense
> without either requiring a filter over the entire map's values to figure
> out what subset you want, or already having a sublist of keys you want to
> include or exclude from your traversal.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> -Craig
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