On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
<bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Louis,
Sunday, February 22, 2009, 2:30:23 AM, you wrote:
yes, you are right. Don also compared results of 64x-reduced
computation with full one. are you think that these results are more
fair?
Yes. Clearly so.
It still computes the result from scratch - it just uses a trick which generates better code. This is clearly a useful and worthwhile exercise as it shows A) A neat trick with TH, B) A reasonably practical way to produce fast code for the critical parts of a Haskell app, C) a motivating example for implementing a compiler optimization to do it automatically.
Just outputting the precomputed result means nothing.