[Haskell-beginners] Merge Sort Stack Overflow

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm not sure how this gets optimised but your call-stack is


GHC's stack is a pattern match stack, *not* a call stack. While
implementations are allowed to differ in how they produce non-strict
evaluation, GHC uses graph reduction; "calls" are not necessarily done in
the order you would expect in a procedural language.

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