[Haskell-beginners] Continuations

Kim-Ee Yeoh ky3 at atamo.com
Thu Jan 1 10:08:40 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Cary Cherng <ccherng at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't see exactly how CPS gives rise to concrete examples of
> performance gains.
>

If you look at the "Reflection without Remorse" paper, you'll see
performance gains painstakingly described for DLists / difference lists of
type [a] -> [a].

The authors see such gains as an application of CPS, the moral being that
CPS has a broad range of meanings.

-- Kim-Ee
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