ok.
actually, i should refine my question a little further:
in the vast majority of cases, the value is *not* used at all.
so i suppose the memoization overhead you mention does not occur when
a lazy value is not forced.

so, the question then becomes:

any difference in overhead between creating 
(lazy v)
and 
(fun () -> v)

?
thanks for any insights
henri







On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 14:39:15 +0100, Jon Harrop
<postmaster@jdh30.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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