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Are design principles of functional programming languages and current hardware (register-machines) contrary?
Functional languages seek to minimize accidental state (computationally-convenient but logically unnecessary data dependencies) by endorsing the most granularly modular, mathematically unambiguous ...
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Performance of single-assignment ADT oriented code on modern CPUs
Working in immutable data with single assignments has the obvious effect of requiring more memory, one would presume, because you're constantly creating new values (though compilers under the covers ...
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Isn't functional paradigm too divergent with underlying hardware to be generally efficient?
Inspired by a question from SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6623391/how-to-gain-control-of-a-5gb-heap-in-haskell
It can be a long debate about FP's numerous advantages and disadvantages, but ...
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