Re: [Outreachy] Use of impure functional programming and use of vlists

[zimoun]

Hi Magali,

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 00:10, Magali Lemes <magalilemes00@gmail.com> wrote:

> As my Outreachy internship approaches an end, I'd like to know which of 
> the following options is better for walking and displaying the Git 
> commit history:
> 1) having a list and then using for-each it to display the commit 
> information;
> 2) display the list while building it.

What could be informative is to benchmark the two cases.  For an
example, see my previous tests on your code:

   <https://yhetil.org/guix/86eei4hamb.fsf@gmail.com>

Profiling the 2 functions should be also helpful.  Feel free to ask on
guix-devel how to profile with Guile.


Cheers,
simon