[Haskell-cafe] Binary constants in Haskell

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:41:27PM +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> > > Total functions, full laziness, and compile time evaluation of finite
> > > non-bottom CAFs...
> >
> > If I write a program that approximates a big but fixed number of digits of
> > Pi - how can we prevent the compiler from computing Pi, and generating a
> > program which contains just the digits of Pi as constant data?
>
> -O0

The compiled program should run fast nevertheless ...