[Haskell-cafe] Compile-time v run-time

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

If RAM was treated as an extension of non-volatile 
storage instead of the other way round, we'd already 
be there.

Put another way, would "suspending" program to 
disk achieve the same results?


Jon Fairbairn wrote:
> 
> Something I've wanted to experiment with for a long time and
> never got round to is writing CAFs back to the load module
> at the end of a run (if they're small enough or took a long
> time to evaluate).  Has anyone tried this? (It would have a
> jolly entertaining effect on benchmark pages!).
> 
> The logical extension of this would be that compiling a
> programme did the typechecking and then just wrote the
> binary equivalent of 'evaluate $ code-generate "...lambda
> expressions from programme text..."' into the load-module.
> If you never run the programme, this would be quicker. If
> you only run the programme once, it would take about the
> same time, and running it several times would be quicker --
> very much so if it didn't depend on any run-time data.
> 

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