Re: [Haskell-cafe] built-in lists vs inductively defined list

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:11:40PM +0200, Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:

On Wed, 09 May 2007, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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To the best of my knowledge, there are no optimizations specific to [] in the compiler proper.

However, the standard library has a *lot* of speed hacks you will need to duplicate!

Some of which are not expressible in "ordinary" Haskell (rewrite rules used for short-cut deforestation).

I just want to note that no particular compiler was named so far in this thread and this is a very compiler specific area. To OP: are you asking about the language or some particular implementation? Best regards Tomasz