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Here's some related work from 2005: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&q=%22A+Nitpicker...

GHC has a comparatively expensive write barrier. That could be seen as taking advantage of immutability. The runtime system takes more advantage of purity, though. For example, it'…

Incidentally fusion won't work for this example (at least not as currently implemented.) Only `foldr` is fusable. Fortunately, regular inlining does just fine. There is of course a…

No, the problem with Itanium is/was that it's no-one knew how to write good compilers for them. Also, VLIW is incredibly close to the hardware and thus bound to be outdated very qu…

JIT simply stands for Just-in-time compilation or optimisation, that is you delay optimising parts of your program until the program executes. Most systems start of by interpreting…

A closure is a function + environment, i.e., the values of its free variables at the time of creation. A thunk is a suspended computation together with an environment. That is, a t…