<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 8:10 PM Vanessa McHale <<a href="mailto:vanessa.mchale@iohk.io">vanessa.mchale@iohk.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Yes, that was what I was never quite clear on. What is your
*actual problem, in context*, not the problem you think you have
because you read elsewhere that foldl' is more efficient?<br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div>The problem I have is that sum consumes huge amount of memory. In particular I'm modeling the Chimeric ledgers described in this paper <a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/262.pdf">https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/262.pdf</a>. In several places I have to sum up values in different lists, and as soon as I try this with large lists the memory usage blows up. So that's my concrete scenario.</div><div><br></div><div>In view of this, I though, "I can write this replacing `sum` by `foldl' (+) 0` but wouldn't be nice if this function was defined already somewhere else?" That's it.</div><div><br></div><div>Please ignore this if it is a silly question, and my apologies in advance.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div class="gmail-m_4600259978239127383moz-cite-prefix">On 08/14/2018 01:07 PM, Bryan Richter
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<pre>On 08/14/2018 11:22 AM, Damian Nadales wrote:
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<pre>Ok, so if understood the bottom line of the answers I got from
Vanessa and Hiromi the take away seems to be: if you're prototyping
then stick to the lazy version of sum, otherwise use more advanced
data structures (Vectors or Folds).
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<pre>Are you implying that lazy functions are only good for prototyping? Or
is there something wrong with sum in particular?
More generally, why isn't sum working for you?
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