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- From: david@gdstech.grumman.com (David Nettles)
- Subject: ** LAZY LANGUAGES FASTER?? **
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.134857.23289@gdstech.grumman.com>
- Sender: david@gdstech.grumman.com (David Nettles)
- Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Woodbury
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:48:57 GMT
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- Are lazy languages faster than eager languages?
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- My intuition says that a lazy language would be a lot faster than an
- eager language simply because the eager language evaluates all of its
- arguements regardless of whether they are all needed by the function.
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- The lazy language, by evaluating only what is necessary, appears to
- save time.
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