[Haskell-cafe] More on performance

[Ketil Malde]

Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> writes:

> Now the difficult question: How to write the 'mean' function in terms of
> 'sum' and 'length' while getting the same performance?

Write a RULE pragma converting

 \xs -> (foldl' f y0 xs,foldl' g z0 xs) 

into

 \xs -> foldl' (\(y,z) x -> (f y x,g z x)) (y0,z0) xs

?

To actually work, it'd have to work for arbitrary top level function,
not just the (,) constructor.  No idea if it's feasible at all, of
course :-)

-k
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