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skew on April 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is the asymptotic cost of purely functional p...

If you were really pedantic, you'd make a distinction between executing beta-reductions directly, and executing them in zero time.

Here's hardware that does the first http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/

chimeracoder on April 11, 2012 [–]

Yeah, in case it wasn't clear, by my second reply I was just being facetious.

Pedantry is infinitely recursive, with no base case in sight and no tail optimization - my tolerance/stack for these things overflows rather quickly. :-)

But thanks for the link! I'll be sure to check it out later; it looks interesting.

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