Dan Doel <dan.doel <at> gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 06 September 2009 2:18:31 am David Menendez wrote: > > > > It turns out, pseq limits the effectiveness of strictness analysis, > > because it forces the order of evaluation. John Meacham described this > > pretty well last week in the Haskell' list > > <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-prime/2009-August/003006.html>. > > Interesting. I hadn't thought of this before, but it certainly makes sense.
Thank to all of you! This thread is fascinating! :) I used `seq` to duct tape my space leaks and stack overflow issues. Now looked for `pseq` for parallelism. And I think I understand enough to use both reasonably. Thanks! Gracjan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe