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Re:From 60 Frames per Second to 500 in Haskell by lomnakkus on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:35PM (#8461540)
As it turns out, in practice, you usually want your data structures to be as strict as possible, but your control flow to be as lazy as possible. Further, some code just isn't well-suited to laziness -- so much so that there's work afoot to have a "strict-by-default" LANGUAGE pragma added in GHC 7.10.x[1].

[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/StrictPragma

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Re:From 60 Frames per Second to 500 in Haskell by tome on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @04:57PM (#8461668)
> you usually want your data structures to be as strict as possible, but your control flow to be as lazy as possible

That's a very nice slogan. I'll have to remember that. It certainly covers the case of generally wanting your record fields to be strict and lists to be lazy when used for control flow.

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Re:From 60 Frames per Second to 500 in Haskell by lomnakkus on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:39PM (#8489381)
> That's a very nice slogan.

Yeah, I borrowed it from some Haskell luminary. My search-fu failed me so I didn't source it as I should have. :)

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