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Lazy instantiation.

• kiernan 11y ago
  realization
• has2k1 11y ago
  Just like python generators.
  • andyl 11y ago
    reality must be dynamically typed.
    • lucozade 11y ago
      Could just be an ADT. photon :: (Wave | Particle)
• sosuke 11y ago
  You made me remember a comment I made some months ago about the speed of light being a performance optimization on a post asking if reality was a computer simulation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8638150 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8638150 Lazy loading makes perfect sense to me!
• Strilanc 11y ago
  A lazily computed simulation would lazily compute entities not seeing the laziness. Laziness should have no measurable effect within the simulation, unlike quantum mechanics. As an analogy, consider Hashlife [1]. It works very differently than your typical game of life implementation... but it still agrees on all the intermediate states! The board won't behave normally for most implementations, but end up in states spelling out "we know we're being cached hierarchically!" when you simulate with hashlife. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife