I would like to see a "getting started" page that covers the time and space footprint of each major data type. It could, for example, tell the reader that adding an element to the end of a list is O(n), but that prepending an element is O(1).
It could also talk about persistent data structures and how that affects how expensive it is (in time and space) to make a modified copy of a binary, map, tuple, etc. I would also be happy to have notes in the documentation for common library functions, explaining anything unusual about their performance. For example, although the Enum.sort_by/3 entry contains performance hints of this nature, the Enum.sort/2 entry does not. So, an incautious reader might well miss it. -r -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/421A8942-30B4-48E8-B324-94CD926F644C%40gmail.com.
