What are the performance advantage of Elixir's defstruct?
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My understanding of Elixir's structure is that;
1. It can't hold keys other than ones defined at compile time.
2. It can have default values, which is evaluated at compile time.
Is there are any performance advantage?
Also, is there anything that I'm missing?
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My understanding of Elixir's structure is that;
1. It can't hold keys other than ones defined at compile time.
2. It can have default values, which is evaluated at compile time.
Is there are any performance advantage?
Also, is there anything that I'm missing?
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From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
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My understanding of Elixir's structure is that;
1. It can't hold keys other than ones defined at compile time.
2. It can have default values, which is evaluated at compile time.
Is there are any performance advantage?
Also, is there anything that I'm missing?
elixir structure
asked Nov 14 at 6:02
HelloWorld
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My understanding of Elixir's structure is that;
1. It can't hold keys other than ones defined at compile time.
2. It can have default values, which is evaluated at compile time.
Is there are any performance advantage?
Also, is there anything that I'm missing?
elixir structure
elixir structure
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HelloWorld
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asked Nov 14 at 6:02
HelloWorld
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asked Nov 14 at 6:02
HelloWorld
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asked Nov 14 at 6:02
HelloWorld
7416
asked Nov 14 at 6:02
HelloWorld
7416
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From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
– GavinBrelstaff
Nov 14 at 7:52
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From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
– GavinBrelstaff
Nov 14 at 7:52
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From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
– GavinBrelstaff
Nov 14 at 7:52
From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
– GavinBrelstaff
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The main advantage of struct is not any performance, but code readability and correctness. Consider something like %{id: 123} - we don't know what that map represents. With structs we can have %Person{id: 123} and %Company{id: 123}, and these will be different things. Furthermore one can easily express which one is expected with pattern matching, as mentioned by GavinBrelstaff. Another example of a feature in struct aimed at correctness is @enforce_keys - by setting it in your struct you make sure that any normally created instance of it will have the given keys present.
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Well, Elixir is open source. As it might be easily seen from the implementation of Kernel.defstruct/1, everything it does is it defines __struct__ method on the module where it was called (only the false part of the case could be considered without the loss of generality).
Everything else there is responsible for informing the Elixir compiler about this struct to enable new syntax (%MyStruct{}) for it and to store some metainformation about the struct into compiler globals.
Underneath the struct is represented by bare map %{} and there could not be any room for any performance boost.
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The main advantage of struct is not any performance, but code readability and correctness. Consider something like %{id: 123} - we don't know what that map represents. With structs we can have %Person{id: 123} and %Company{id: 123}, and these will be different things. Furthermore one can easily express which one is expected with pattern matching, as mentioned by GavinBrelstaff. Another example of a feature in struct aimed at correctness is @enforce_keys - by setting it in your struct you make sure that any normally created instance of it will have the given keys present.
answered Nov 14 at 14:06
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The main advantage of struct is not any performance, but code readability and correctness. Consider something like %{id: 123} - we don't know what that map represents. With structs we can have %Person{id: 123} and %Company{id: 123}, and these will be different things. Furthermore one can easily express which one is expected with pattern matching, as mentioned by GavinBrelstaff. Another example of a feature in struct aimed at correctness is @enforce_keys - by setting it in your struct you make sure that any normally created instance of it will have the given keys present.
answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
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The main advantage of struct is not any performance, but code readability and correctness. Consider something like %{id: 123} - we don't know what that map represents. With structs we can have %Person{id: 123} and %Company{id: 123}, and these will be different things. Furthermore one can easily express which one is expected with pattern matching, as mentioned by GavinBrelstaff. Another example of a feature in struct aimed at correctness is @enforce_keys - by setting it in your struct you make sure that any normally created instance of it will have the given keys present.
answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
17.2k56060
The main advantage of struct is not any performance, but code readability and correctness. Consider something like %{id: 123} - we don't know what that map represents. With structs we can have %Person{id: 123} and %Company{id: 123}, and these will be different things. Furthermore one can easily express which one is expected with pattern matching, as mentioned by GavinBrelstaff. Another example of a feature in struct aimed at correctness is @enforce_keys - by setting it in your struct you make sure that any normally created instance of it will have the given keys present.
answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
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answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
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answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
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answered Nov 14 at 14:06
Paweł Obrok
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Well, Elixir is open source. As it might be easily seen from the implementation of Kernel.defstruct/1, everything it does is it defines __struct__ method on the module where it was called (only the false part of the case could be considered without the loss of generality).
Everything else there is responsible for informing the Elixir compiler about this struct to enable new syntax (%MyStruct{}) for it and to store some metainformation about the struct into compiler globals.
Underneath the struct is represented by bare map %{} and there could not be any room for any performance boost.
answered Nov 14 at 13:48
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Well, Elixir is open source. As it might be easily seen from the implementation of Kernel.defstruct/1, everything it does is it defines __struct__ method on the module where it was called (only the false part of the case could be considered without the loss of generality).
Everything else there is responsible for informing the Elixir compiler about this struct to enable new syntax (%MyStruct{}) for it and to store some metainformation about the struct into compiler globals.
Underneath the struct is represented by bare map %{} and there could not be any room for any performance boost.
answered Nov 14 at 13:48
Aleksei Matiushkin
77.3k95088
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Well, Elixir is open source. As it might be easily seen from the implementation of Kernel.defstruct/1, everything it does is it defines __struct__ method on the module where it was called (only the false part of the case could be considered without the loss of generality).
Everything else there is responsible for informing the Elixir compiler about this struct to enable new syntax (%MyStruct{}) for it and to store some metainformation about the struct into compiler globals.
Underneath the struct is represented by bare map %{} and there could not be any room for any performance boost.
answered Nov 14 at 13:48
Aleksei Matiushkin
77.3k95088
Well, Elixir is open source. As it might be easily seen from the implementation of Kernel.defstruct/1, everything it does is it defines __struct__ method on the module where it was called (only the false part of the case could be considered without the loss of generality).
Everything else there is responsible for informing the Elixir compiler about this struct to enable new syntax (%MyStruct{}) for it and to store some metainformation about the struct into compiler globals.
Underneath the struct is represented by bare map %{} and there could not be any room for any performance boost.
answered Nov 14 at 13:48
Aleksei Matiushkin
77.3k95088
answered Nov 14 at 13:48
Aleksei Matiushkin
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answered Nov 14 at 13:48
Aleksei Matiushkin
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answered Nov 14 at 13:48
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From the docs: "Structs can also be used in pattern matching, both for matching on the value of specific keys as well as for ensuring that the matching value is a struct of the same type as the matched value." So you can win by pattern matching rather than using less performant algorithmic method - I guess.
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