And here is a lesson that was lost on virtually everyone in the thread.

The Schwartzian Transform is an optimization. Starting off writing a sort by by saying, "I'm going to write a Schwartzian Transform because it is slow" is premature optimization. Don't micro-optimize a step that is probably miniscule in the overall scheme of things.

In the specific example that you give, the transform is justifiable not by performance, but by the fact that you avoid having to write parallel pre-processing logic for $a and $b. At which point there is a rationale for moving all of the complexity into the first map (put all of the data processing logic in one place), but it is a minor win at best.

In reply to Re: Malformed Schwartzian Transforms by tilly
in thread Malformed Schwartzian Transforms by Anonymous Monk

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