[clean-list] why does this program use so little memory?

[Isaac Gouy]

--- Arjen <A.vanWeelden at cs.ru.nl> wrote:

> Great, such explanations do make the programs more readable.
> 
> Unfortunately, this Clean entry is now disqualified. Other lazy 
> functional languages, which use lazy trees, are valid.

Please be specific - which other program uses lazy trees? 
(And perhaps that discussion is off-topic for this mailing-list so
please raise the issue on the computer language shootout discussion
forum.)

 
> Maybe someone can explain why Clean #3 performs so poor compared to 
> OCaml and MLton? The Clean Tree type is already specialized and
> strict.
> 
> regards,
> 	Arjen



 
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