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Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster
The trick that makes GHC’s ApplicativeDo optimization faster is structurally identical to how biologists predict RNA folding.
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The trick that makes GHC’s ApplicativeDo optimization faster is structurally identical to how biologists predict RNA folding.