Hello Henning,

Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 9:51:28 AM, you wrote:

>    We could simulate a list with strict elements, i.e.
>      data StrictList a = Elem !a (StrictList a) | End
>   by an unboxed array with a cursor to the next element to be evaluated and
> a function that generates the next element. Whenever an element with an
> index beyond the cursor is requested, sufficiently many new elements are
> written to the array and the cursor is advanced. This would still allow
> the nice tricks for recursive Fibonacci sequence definition. This will
> obviously save memory, but can we also expect that it is noticeably faster
> than (StrictList a) ?

looks like lazy.bytestring generalized to any a


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