>From: John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Actually the cache behaviour of code generated by GHC isn't at all bad. >I know because I ran a student project a couple of years ago to >implement cache-friendly optimisations. The first thing they did was >cache profiling of some benchmarks, and to our surprise we discovered >the cache behaviour of lazy code is already pretty good. You get a lot >of structure in the evaluation of lazy code -- it just isn't evident in >the source code!
John, could you describe in some more detail why the code behaved well w.r.t. cache performance? I think this is interesting, and what you say is quite counterintuitive. Bj�rn Lisper _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
