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| author | Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> | 2017-03-16 20:28:26 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2017-03-19 14:27:11 -0400 |
| commit | 105a5f47e57910bef3c2e2c9637aea7a3f5d1314 (patch) | |
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| parent | e0f1054ba3f27de9dcffdb9b493c88c265cba6d7 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-105a5f47e57910bef3c2e2c9637aea7a3f5d1314.tar.gz | |
Update link to paper about demand analyser in user guide
Reviewers: austin, bgamari
Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3354
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst b/docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst index e56c47312c..8f7d6b8e03 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/using-optimisation.rst @@ -678,11 +678,8 @@ list. :default: on - Switch on the strictness analyser. There is a very - old paper about GHC's strictness analyser, `Measuring the - effectiveness of a simple strictness - analyser <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/simple-strictnes-analyser.ps.gz>`__, - but the current one is quite a bit different. + Switch on the strictness analyser. The + implementation is described in the paper `Theory and Practice of Demand Analysis in Haskell`<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/demand-jfp-draft.pdf>`__. The strictness analyser figures out when arguments and variables in a function can be treated 'strictly' (that is they are always |