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Re:How to avoid correctness space leaks on a lazy setting in... by klntsky on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:15AM (#35493337)
> and we're struggling to get basic control over memory usage

You have to understand runtime of any language in order to write memory-efficient code in it. Lazy runtimes are predictable once you know how they work.

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Re:How to avoid correctness space leaks on a lazy setting in... by whateveracct on Saturday April 08, 2023 @10:46AM (#35493676)
It's somewhat telling that the first comment on a blog post about having control of laziness is about how "we struggle to control laziness" .. seemingly using the blog post's existence as proof that we don't have control?
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