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Re:Function pipelines: Building functional programming into ... by stingraycharles on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:47PM (#28920249)
I can assume that this special syntax allows for better optimizations; the SQL variant is much more flexible, which means you can make much less assumptions, and thus less room for optimizations.

Not sure if they’re doing that (especially for the v1 version of what looks to be primarily a syntactic selling point, rather than a perf selling point). But that’s what I would do.

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Re:Function pipelines: Building functional programming into ... by djk447 on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:56PM (#28920381)
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Yep! you got it exactly right! We're doing it for syntax first and then hopefully go back and start doing interesting performance optimizations on top. There are definitely some things we're thinking about.

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Re:Function pipelines: Building functional programming into ... by chrisjc on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @01:18PM (#28920676)
Wow, great explanation! Now I really like this idea!
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