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Date: 2004-06-30 (13:41)
From: Jon Harrop <postmaster@j...>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] lazy vs function for values that are used once at most 

> when one has a value v that is going to be either used 0 or 1 time, is
> there any difference in terms of overhead (ie for building the
> closure,  GC performance, etc) between passing around  (lazy v) and
> then forcing the value if needed, or passing around (fun () -> v) and
> evaluating f when needed?

IIRC, Lazy is slower because of the (wasted, in this case) overhead of 
memoizing the result.

Cheers,
Jon.

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