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Performance Considerations

Binary comprehensions compile to efficient code, but there are still considerations:

  1. Memory usage: Each intermediate binary allocation takes memory. For very large data, consider streaming approaches.

  2. Avoid excessive copying: Binary manipulation in Erlang/LFE is optimized for append operations. Prepending or inserting in the middle is expensive.

  3. Use binary comprehensions for transformation, not iteration: If you’re just checking conditions without producing output, use regular recursion or lists:foldl.