[Haskell-cafe] *GROUP HUG*

[Yves Parès]

So it seconds my initial point: you can't store the size because it has no
sense.

2011/5/25 Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org>

> "Richard O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:
>
> >> Then tell me, why does calculating the length of a (Haskell)
> >> list has O(n) complexity.
>
> > Because it is a rather rare operation and the cost of doing
> > this would be far higher than you think.
>
> I suspect that if you store the length non-strictly, it would build up
> thunks, causing a stack overflow when evaluated.  If it is strict, it
> would make a lot of operations that are O(1) today into O(n) operations.
>
> -k
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