deeqSeq proposal

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello John,

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 2:43:49 AM, you wrote:

> true. in any case, deepseq is not always a win.

don't forget that Andy don't plan to apply deepSeq to any expression.
in his program, there is a LARGE datastructure with a couple of
unevaluated thunks what may be simplified by call to deepSeq. your
example is based exclusively on the syntax transformations of source
code, i think that in his program the logic is so complex that such
syntax transformations is entirely impossible

anyway i think that the easisest way for Andy to get what he need is
to write ghc-specific `deepSeq` implementation that should just walk
unevaluated parts of datastructure and evaluate them all. as i
understand, he don't need to evaluate arguments of partially applied
functions - there is just no such beasts in his data


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