8 Feb
2016
8 Feb
'16
11:28 a.m.
On 06/02/2016, Michał Antkiewicz
Every programmer should understand the difference between boxed and unboxed values. Period.
Why? The performance of some code is not critical. Sometimes i need not care about 1 more indirection in their code, and some authors need never care, and in these cases i appreciate Haskell not forcing me to care. I'm not saying every language ought to hide this – i quite like Rust, for example – but most times hiding it works quite well for me in Haskell.