[racket] Combining iteration and match

>  > Like others have mentioned, my generic-bind package has the
>  > functionality you want but is still in the experimental stages. For
>  > small programs, the generic-bind for/_ forms are about as fast as the
>  > current Racket implementation but expect 2-3x slowdown for larger
>  > programs.
>
> Since the criterion seems to be the size of the program, do I conclude
> correctly that the slowdown concerns compile-time, rather than run-time?
> If not, what aspect of program size matters?

The 2-3x estimate was for runtime, in the case of for loops with many
iterations (ie millions). I've just pushed some optimizations though
that cut the slowdown to maybe 1.5-2x, in preliminary experiments. So
you should "pkg update" (or pull if you are using the source directly)
to get the changes.

In addition, you should expect a noticeable compile-time slowdown,
though I dont have a firm grasp on how much.

By the way, if you are matching lists, you can use the list-match
binding form directly, to eliminate an extra pair of parens:

  (~for/list ([($list a b) some-sequence])
    a)

Please keep me updated with any problems you have.



>
> Konrad.
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