Understanding strictness of ghc output

Adrian Hey ahey at iee.org
Tue Jun 22 12:09:01 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 22 Jun 2004 2:28 pm, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> The DmdType for the Int# is indeed "L" but that's irrelevant because
> Int# values are always evaluated.  The demand info is always L for an
> unboxed type.

Thanks, I had noticed it did appear to have decided h was unboxed
(assuming my interpretation of core was correct), so it seemed rather
strange that addHeight could be lazy (non-strict) in that argument.

So does L mean "Lazy", or something else?

Thanks
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Adrian Hey  


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