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Discussion on: Don’t pay the for-loop tax

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Sami Pietikäinen • Edited

To think that manual for-loops are always faster than functional approach is a misconception. For instance in Rust using iterators and functions like map and filter are in fact as fast or even faster than manually implemented loops: doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edit...

It's called zero-cost abstraction: you can write high level functional code and still get similar performance as manually implemented low level code.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case with other languages as well since modern compilers and interpreters are really good at optimizing.