On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Edward Z. Yang wrote:

Laziness can be viewed as a form of controlled mutation, where
we overwrite a thunk with its actual value, thus only running
the code once and reaping great time benefits.

Reminds me on a discussion about 'blue printing' in the past:
  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blueprint

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