Pragmatic concurrency Re: [Haskell-cafe] multiple computations, same input

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Brian Hulley wrote:

> This sounds good. The only thing I'm wondering is what do we actually gain by
> using Haskell in the first place instead of just a strict language? It seems
> that Haskell's lazyness gives a succinct but too inefficient program which
> then needs extra code in the form of rewrite rules/pragmas, or else a complete
> rewrite in terms of seq etc to get it to run fast enough without space
> leaks...
> 

Often the laziness is useful for purposes of efficiency as well though.

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