Repeated computations under a lambda

[David Feuer]

On Tuesday, July 18, 2017 3:55:28 PM EDT Conal Elliott wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. It's that I don't want `exampleC` to be eta-expanded.
> Apparently GHC does by default even when doing so moves computation under
> lambda. I've thought otherwise for a very long time.

GHC really likes to eta-expand, because that can be very good for allocation,
unboxing, and I don't know what else. Do you really need to represent the
intermediate result by a *function*? Would it work just to save the Double
itself? I suspect you could likely convince GHC to leave it alone.

David