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> but is apparently normal for pure functional languages Where did you hear that? It's certainly true for Clojure as well. My guess is that it applies to a
by zimbatm 12y ago
> but is apparently normal for pure functional languages
Where did you hear that?
It's certainly true for Clojure as well. My guess is that it applies to any language that uses immutable data structures. I remember Rich Hickey talking about issues with the JVM due to clojure's unusual allocation model in one of his talks.
- imanaccount247 12y agoIt may well be true for clojure, but it is not for haskell. I know both clojure and scala have issues due to assumptions in the JVM execution model that don't play well with functional programming, but ghc was written explicitly just for haskell.