Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:18:55PM -0000, Brian Hulley wrote:
I must admit I'm a bit confused as to why the strictness annotations
in Haskell (and Clean) are only allowed in data declarations and not
function declarations
Clean does allow strictness annotations in function types.
Thanks for pointing this out - I must admit I had only taken a very quick
look at Clean (I was overwhelmed by the complicated type system) but now
I've found the place in the Clean book that describes strictness annotations
for function types so I must look into this a bit more.
If I wanted to write a 3d computer game in Haskell (or Clean), would lazy
evaluation with strictness annotations lead to as fast a program as eager
evaluation with lazy annotations for the same amount of programming effort?
And would the result be as fast as an equivalent program in C++ or OCaml or
MLton? If so, there would obviously be no point wasting time trying to
develop an eager dialect of Haskell (or Clean).
I wonder if current compilation technology for lazy Haskell (or Clean) has
reached the theoretical limits on what is possible for the compiler to
optimize away, or if it is just that optimization has not received so much
attention as work on the type system etc?
Regards, Brian.
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