How to optimize for-comprehensions and loops in Scala?

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The problem in this particular case is that you return from within the for-expression. That in turn gets translated into a throw of a NonLocalReturnException, which is caught at the enclosing method. The optimizer can eliminate the foreach but cannot yet eliminate the throw/catch. And throw/catch is expensive. But since such nested returns are rare in Scala programs, the optimizer did not yet address this case. There is work going on to improve the optimizer which hopefully will solve this issue soon.

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