[Haskell-cafe] Optimistic evaluation

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Coppin
Hi folks. I just read a rather interesting paper about a fork of GHC that performs "optimistic evaluation". This shows big wins in some cases. The authors claim to have implemented this in a fork of GHC and promised that it would be integrated into the production compiler "in the near future

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Optimistic evaluation

2009-01-18 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: > Hi folks. > > I just read a rather interesting paper about a fork of GHC that performs > "optimistic evaluation". This shows big wins in some cases. > > The authors claim to have implemented this in a fork of GHC and promised > that it would be integrated into the production com

[Haskell-cafe] Optimistic Evaluation was Re: Can't Haskell catch up with Clean's uniqueness typing?

2005-12-06 Thread Shae Matijs Erisson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > being occupied with learning both languages, I'm getting curious if > Haskell couldn't achieve most of the performance gains resulting from > uniqueness typing in Clean by *automatically* determining the reference > count of arguments wherever possible and subsequently