[Haskell-cafe] why are applicative functors (often) faster than monads? (WAS Google Summer of Code - Lock-free data structures)

[Ben]

i'm not sure what your email is pointing at.  if it is unclear, i understand the difference between applicative and monadic.  i suppose the easy answer to why applicative can be faster than monadic is that you can give a more specialized instance declaration.  i was just wondering if there was a way to make a monad recognize when it is being used applicatively, but that is probably hard in general.

b

On Apr 20, 2012, at 2:54 PM, KC wrote:

> Think of the differences (and similarities) of Applicative Functors and Monads and the extra context that monads carry around.
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