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authorLeif Metcalf <me@leif.nz>2019-10-26 09:31:51 +1300
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Rephrase note on full-laziness
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@@ -459,13 +459,12 @@ by saying ``-fno-wombat``.
residency.
.. note::
- GHC doesn't implement complete full-laziness. When
- optimisation in on, and ``-fno-full-laziness`` is not given, some
- transformations that increase sharing are performed, such as
- extracting repeated computations from a loop. These are the same
- transformations that a fully lazy implementation would do, the
- difference is that GHC doesn't consistently apply full-laziness, so
- don't rely on it.
+ GHC doesn't implement complete full laziness. Although GHC's
+ full-laziness optimisation does enable some transformations
+ which would be performed by a fully lazy implementation (such as
+ extracting repeated computations from loops), these
+ transformations are not applied consistently, so don't rely on
+ them.
.. ghc-flag:: -ffun-to-thunk
:shortdesc: Allow worker-wrapper to convert a function closure into a thunk