On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 17:22:31 +0100, Lemmih wrote: [..]
pseq is just as bad. The problem is excessive use of strictness annotations in the hope of a magical performance improvement. Strictness annotations should be used with care and only placed where they're needed.
Premature annotations for strictness is the root of all evil? :-) How do one find "good" places to use strictness annotations? (Is using a profiler the answer, just like it's the answer for manual optimisation in non-lazy languages?) Oh, just in case you didn't guess it already, I'm a Haskell n00b who has yet to achieve enlightenment... /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. "And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?" -- For the sperm whale, it wasn't.