Speculative Execution - Lazy Evaluation

Lazy Evaluation

Lazy evaluation does not speculate. The incorporation of speculative execution into implementations of the Haskell programming language is a current research topic. Eager Haskell is designed around the idea of speculative execution. Recent versions of GHC support a kind of speculative execution with an abortion mechanism to back out in case of a bad choice called optimistic execution.

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