From: Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall?
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:18:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8jts1su.fsf@logand.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ima21d1k.fsf@logand.com>
On Thu 19 Nov 2020 at 00:05, Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> wrote:
> thunk is about delaying computation. thunk.el mixes in memoization.
even wikipedia mentions that memoization is a separat feature from thunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
Compilers for these languages, such as the Glasgow Haskell Compiler,
have relied heavily on thunks, with the added feature that the thunks
save their initial result so that they can avoid recalculating it;[5]
this is known as memoization or call-by-need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-19 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-17 15:17 thunk.el: Document that thunk-force == funcall? Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 17:08 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 17:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 18:09 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 21:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 22:42 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 8:01 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 22:19 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-18 23:13 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:40 ` Stephen Leake
2020-11-18 9:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-11-18 22:21 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-17 17:32 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-18 23:05 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-18 23:25 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 11:50 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-19 18:14 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-11-19 17:18 ` Tomas Hlavaty [this message]
2020-11-19 9:49 ` Nicolas Petton
2020-11-17 21:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-25 14:16 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-27 17:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-17 4:37 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-12-18 2:58 ` Adam Porter
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