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Re:Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature by billdueber on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:37PM (#43757999)
If you add in a call to “.lazy“ it won’t create all the intermediate arrays. There since at least 2.7. https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.0/Enumerator/Lazy.html
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Re:Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature by zelphirkalt on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:59PM (#43758419)
Ultimately it will depend on the functions being chained. If they can work with one part of the result, or a subset of parts, then they might not block, otherwise they will still need to get a complete result and the lazy cannot help.
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Re:Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature by hbogert on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @02:24AM (#43759548)
Not much different from having a `sort` in shell pipeline I guess?
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Re:Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature by dorfsmay on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @09:10AM (#43761673)
I do the same with Python, replacing multilevel comprehensions with intermediary steps of generator expressions, which are lazy and therefore do not impact performance and memory usage.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0289/

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