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Btw, from my perspective, one problem with relying on foldMap is that it treats the whole structure uniformly, whereas the split approach would let one, for example, bottom out to a sequential implementation at a certain granularity.  Perhaps that is the "boilerplate for controlling recursion" that you referred to... but isn't it sometimes necessary?

   -Ryan