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People fixate on this, and all I can say is * it has never been an issue for me * I don't think the performance implications are nearly as hard to understand

by wyager 4y ago

People fixate on this, and all I can say is * it has never been an issue for me * I don't think the performance implications are nearly as hard to understand as often implied * in the extreme you can just enable the STRICT language pragma in your project and forget about it :)

abathologist 4y ago
That's funny. This has been a problem for every experienced Haskell programmer I've known who works in Haskell professionally. I wonder what domain you work in where performance and space leaks haven't been a concern?
- wyager 4y ago
  It's not that space leaks are not a concern; it's that it's actually quite easy to avoid creating them, and if you manage to do so and it becomes a problem, it's usually easy to track down. I don't know any experienced haskell programmer who would even mention this in a list of complaints about the language (which they are sure to have, but they will likely be more abstract).