[Haskell] Real life examples

Dylan Thurston dpt at lotus.bostoncoop.net
Fri Nov 26 20:37:17 EST 2004


On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:34:31AM -0800, John Meacham wrote:
> Part of my current interest in #2 is that I have been experimenting with
> some full-program optimization algorithms which could perhaps give
> substantial gains but would pretty much obliterate any uses of the
> unsafePerformIO global variable hack, and no pragma can save them.
> Before this, I never realized just how uncorrect the global variable  use of
> unsafePerformIO was :) 

That sounds fascinating.  Can you say more about the optimizations in
question, and why the hack is so incorrect?

Peace,
	Dylan
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