[Haskell-cafe] built-in lists vs inductively defined list

[Nils Anders Danielsson]

On Wed, 09 May 2007, Stefan O'Rear <stefanor at cox.net> wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, there are no optimizations specific to []
> in the compiler proper.
>
> However, the standard library has a *lot* of speed hacks you will need
> to duplicate!

Some of which are not expressible in "ordinary" Haskell (rewrite rules
used for short-cut deforestation).

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