From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list <caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] laziness
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 12:21:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040906162125.GA6299@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409061355.05523.jon@jdh30.plus.com>
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:55:05PM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
> On Monday 06 September 2004 01:57, Richard Jones wrote:
> > One thing that worries me about laziness.
> >
> > Doesn't laziness often indicate a bug in the code?
>
> [...]
>
> So laziness can be used as an optimisation.
Laziness has a particularly special place for pure languages like Haskell.
Some algorithms cannot be expressed with the same asymptotic complexity in
a pure eager language as in an impure eager language. But this complexity
gap can be closed by making the pure language lazy:
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/geraint.jones/morehaste.html
cheers,
William
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-05 1:07 Jason Smith
2004-09-05 5:46 ` skaller
2004-09-06 0:57 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-06 6:11 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-06 8:24 ` skaller
2004-09-06 8:44 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-06 12:55 ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-06 16:21 ` William Lovas [this message]
2004-09-06 22:35 ` Hartmann Schaffer
2004-09-07 8:31 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-07 8:37 ` Nicolas Cannasse
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2004-09-06 12:17 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 17:00 ` skaller
2004-09-06 9:16 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 9:07 Jason Smith
2004-09-06 10:18 ` skaller
2004-09-04 6:30 skaller
2004-09-04 8:40 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-04 11:21 ` skaller
2004-09-04 11:49 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-04 20:40 ` Hartmann Schaffer
2004-09-05 10:50 ` Jon Harrop
2004-09-05 14:07 ` skaller
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