[Haskell-cafe] Global memoization in Haskell

[Stephen Tetley]

On 22 April 2011 09:50, Albert Zeyer <albzey at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> I would be interested in implementing such thing myself as an addon
> for GHC and doing some benchmarks. Could you maybe:
> - Give me some hints where to start in GHC? I never really have worked
> on GHC so far.
> - Suggest some good benchmark code? I am mostly interesting in how
> this performs in huge real-world applications, so having some toy
> benchmark problems would be nice but some more huge benchmark problems
> would be better. Best would be some pool of both small and big
> benchmark programs.

Hi Albert

There isn't much value to automatic memoization as people have already
pointed out on SO - if you believe otherwise, you're probably better
off proving a case on paper first before attempting to implement it in
GHC.

Best wishes

Stephen