[Haskell-cafe] Does the GHC GC handle const application?

David Feuer david.feuer at gmail.com
Tue May 31 00:13:41 UTC 2016


If I create a thunk representing

const x y

will the garbage collector be sure to replace this with x? I'm just
wondering if I have to be concerned about the fact that Data.Sequence
defines update in terms of adjust, with

update x = adjust (const x)
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