lazy thoughts

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
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> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> But I'm just guessing there will be some penalty for doing everything
>> lazily in the case where you know you want a full array.  More data is
>> needed on that I think.
>>
>> But even assuming it's is a free lunch, I'd want a better way make an
>> array than putting .eager on everything.  First off, that's not even
>> remotely a verb (like .eval() or .exec()), nor is it a noun that
>> clearly expresses the type it will become (ala array() or toArray()).
>
> I believe (without having measured... which means that I am essentially 
> lying) that we can safely assume the lunch will be free or low cost. The 
> copying of the underlying range should be cheap except for the shortest 
> ranges.
>

Could it get in the way of parallelizing map?