MapleScala

[Hilia]

You were expressing uncertainty regarding the performance of fancy iterator stuff, like filter and foreach, compared to handwritten loops. Since that difference alone is not an algorithmic difference, and I know from personal experience that iterators can be implemented very efficiently (see Rust), I therefore classified it under premature optimization. Now if you did benchmark the various techniques and get some numbers to demonstrate that iterators are significantly slower than the equivalent handwritten loop, then that optimization would no longer be premature.

I have actually tested this in C# some time ago ( i can't talk about scala) where i looped though almost all types in the assembly at start up and in that case LINQ was slower, by 25% now uh.. 25% is that much? , uhm not really since i am talking about mili seconds( i don't have the code any more or the exact time but the impact was so low that i desided to go for LINQ since i found it more readable) and so i agree that it is premature optimizing (atleast in the case of C#)

[ALotOfPosts]

You were expressing uncertainty regarding the performance of fancy iterator stuff, like filter and foreach, compared to handwritten loops. Since that difference alone is not an algorithmic difference, and I know from personal experience that iterators can be implemented very efficiently (see Rust), I therefore classified it under premature optimization. Now if you did benchmark the various techniques and get some numbers to demonstrate that iterators are significantly slower than the equivalent handwritten loop, then that optimization would no longer be premature.

You quoted the wrong person? Nothing in his post is about filter and foreach

[retep998]

You quoted the wrong person? Nothing in his post is about filter and foreach

Erk, you're right. Fixed my post.

[oxysoft]

ITT: op who doesn't know anything about scala starts writing a game server meanwhile other ppl argue over stuff no one cares abt

[aaronweiss]

aaronweiss: Yes there were some constructive points but overall your comments were rather toxic. For example you have yet failed to mention that not all scala users/advocates actually favor a highly functional style, Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language. Feel free to treat it as such.

It's a multi-paradigm language because it more-or-less has to be to have Java interop. There are few Scala programmers who don't use functional idioms, and for the most part, those people are basically just writing Java. There's little point to using a different language if you're not going to take advantage of the features it gives you.

[oxysoft]

Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language. Feel free to treat it as such.

this is the dumbest thing I've read all week, good job

retep998: You are making the common mistake of misclassifieing something as premature optimization. If I have a given problem and can choose between two algorithms of which I know that one is faster and both are equally readable I should always choose the faster one

except when the difference is fucking insignificant and/or it hinders readability significantly

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it's like you came straight from tumblr, you fucking waste of oxygen