[Haskell-cafe] deepSeq vs rnf

[Ross Paterson]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:47:20PM +0100, Björn Bringert wrote:
> I wanted to use the Strategies library and didn't understand much of it, 
> so I sat down and documented it. The darcs version, 
> http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/Control/Parallel/Strategies.hs 
> has my changes.

Perhaps it would make sense to move all the NFData material to a new
module called, say, Control.NormalForm, and maybe add a deepSeq function
there.  Control.Parallel.Strategies is a somewhat surprising place to
find normal form functions, and most of the people who are using them
aren't thinking about parallelism.