[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 39, Issue 6

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 17:22:31 +0100, Lemmih wrote:
[..]
>pseq is just as bad. The problem is excessive use of strictness
>annotations in the hope of a magical performance improvement.
>Strictness annotations should be used with care and only placed where
>they're needed.

Premature annotations for strictness is the root of all evil?  :-)

How do one find "good" places to use strictness annotations?  (Is using
a profiler the answer, just like it's the answer for manual optimisation
in non-lazy languages?)

Oh, just in case you didn't guess it already, I'm a Haskell n00b who has
yet to achieve enlightenment...

/M

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