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tome on Nov 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood

Let's not overstate the case. There's still plenty of abstraction which is tricky or impossible for GHC to optimize. But yes, with static analysis comes the possibility of nice optimizations.

coolsunglasses on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

Indeed.

I like the tricky one they're kicking around that would make `lens` faster. Pretty intriguing. I'm hopeful they'll be able to make it work in STG.

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