[Haskell-cafe] Forcing recomputation

[Roman Cheplyaka]

Control.Exception.evaluate doesn't have much to do with forcing
recomputation. If the argument is already in whnf, evaluate won't do
anything.

On 19/11/14 09:58, Christopher Allen wrote:
> Looks
> like http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.1/docs/Control-Exception.html#g:8
> ?
> 
> https://github.com/bos/criterion/blob/master/Criterion/Types.hs#L290-L295
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Tom Ellis
> <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
> <mailto:tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:39:37PM -0800, Todd Wilson wrote:
>     > For example, suppose I have a function f and two arguments e1
>     > and e2, and I want to compare the time it takes to compute f e1 vs. f
>     > e2
> 
>     If your purpose is benchmarking (and even if it isn't) I suggest you
>     look at
>     how criterion manages the issue
> 
>         http://www.serpentine.com/criterion/tutorial.html