[Haskell-cafe] Re: The Worker/Wrapper Transformation

[Ben Franksen]

Achim Schneider wrote:
> ...is a paper about automatic specialisation of functions by unboxing
> arguments, one could say. I'm only on page 6, but already survived the
> first formalisms, which is bound to mean that the rest of the paper is
> likewise accessible, as hinted on at ltu.
> 
> http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/wrapper.pdf
> 
> The transformation itself is mindbogglingly easy, which makes this a
> good start: You only have to understand the formalisms, not so much what
> the formalisms are representing. To quote spj: It usually turns out to
> be more interesting and challenging than it seemed at first.
> 
> I'm tempted to write that this is a paper for everyone trying to figure
> out what the heck Jonathan is talking about.

Hey Achim

many thanks for bringing this wonderful paper to my attention. Dijkstra's
soul breethes out of every equation...

Cheers
Ben