Re: return first element in list with certain property

[Michael Heerdegen]

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:

> Please consider Knuth's statement about premature optimization. Until
> your users have actually complained about the speed of your product
> and you have benchmarked it and isolated cl-find-if as the culprit,
> there's no need to micro-optimize. Presumably cl-find-if has performed
> two iterations for years or decades without anybody being bothered
> enough to improve it.

Not only that.  Seems the second iteration is at least ~50 times faster
than the first one (using `elt' that is much faster than a loop), so it
doesn't matter anyway.  If your program is slow, the second iteration
will never be the culprit.


Michael.