[Agda] evaluation in compilation

Nils Anders Danielsson nad at chalmers.se
Wed Oct 3 16:52:10 CEST 2012


On 2012-10-03 16:35, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> Why do the developers talk of slowness, of call by name?
> Does this refer only to evaluation during compilation?

Call-by-name is (currently) used by the type-checker. The MAlonzo
backend uses whatever GHC uses. (If we wanted to we could add lots of
strictness annotations, but this is not done at the moment.)

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/NAD


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