On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:51:34PM -0400, Lajos Nagy wrote: > > I remember once reading a paper by SPJ about Optimistic Evaluation that > is somewhere between lazy and strict. If I remember correctly, they even > implemented it in GHC. Now, it seems that current version of GHC doesn't > support optimistic evaluation (not even as an optional feature), so my > question > is: what happened to OE?
It was only ever in a branch of ghc 5.something. > Was it that it seemed like a good idea on paper > but not in reality? Or was it too costly to maintain? Or it didn't deliver > the goods it promised? I'm just curious. My understanding is that the benefit it gave didn't make up for the increased complexity of GHC's source code. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
