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by flobosg 419 days ago
Base R as well: |> was implemented as a pipe operator in 4.1.0.
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Importantly, the base R pipe implements the operation at the language parsing level, so it has basically zero overhead.
I would assume, that most languages do that, or alternatively have a compiler, that is smart enough to ensure there is no actual overhead in the compiled code.