From: Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>
To: Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com>
Cc: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Question on performance/style issue
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:05:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060224190501.GA27740@fork.recoil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FF2BC9.6030503@studio.baretta.com>
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:52:41PM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> I am very fond of the following "duality" operator.
>
> let (++) x f = f x
>
> I use to write complex computations legibly: instead of
> > h(g(f(x)))
> I write
> > x ++ f ++ g ++ h
>
> What is the impact of the this programming style on execution performance?
>From a GC point of view, this is better than the alternative of
splitting up the calls into separate let bindings. It's used in
the OCaml sources to make some long call-chains look nicer.
To reference the original post...
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2003/09/825011113899cde2b1b96cf7fc7a0f7b.en.html
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Anil Madhavapeddy http://anil.recoil.org
University of Cambridge http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-24 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-24 15:52 Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-24 19:05 ` Anil Madhavapeddy [this message]
2006-02-24 19:25 ` [Caml-list] " Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-25 11:14 ` Andrej Bauer
2006-02-27 22:37 ` David M. Cooke
2006-02-27 23:49 ` [Caml-list] " David Brown
2006-02-28 12:02 ` Alessandro Baretta
2006-02-28 12:04 ` [Caml-list] " Alessandro Baretta
2006-03-01 5:45 ` Nathaniel Gray
2006-03-01 8:34 ` Alessandro Baretta
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