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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by tome on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @03:47PM (#8626236)
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.
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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood by coolsunglasses on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @02:35AM (#8628728)
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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