Re: [Caml-list] log function without evaluate arguments

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com>]

Christopher L Conway wrote:

> On 11/6/07, Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com> wrote:
> >  Also, creating a lazy thunk in Ocaml is expensive (like 140+ clock cycles),
> > while passing an argument into a function is cheap- and the common case will
> > be that the argument won't need to be evaluated, just passed in.
> 
> What does this mean? Did OCaml become non-strict while I wasn't looking?

Ocaml is strict by default and optionally lazy.

The code being discussed was this:

    log (lazy (Printf.printf "%s" (awfully_long_computation ())))

where everything inside

    (lazy X)

is lazy evaluated.

Erik
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