[racket] Understanding GC when working with streams

From: Stephen Chang (stchang at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 9 12:15:33 EDT 2013

> Thanks, and to Konrad too.  You're mention of in-range being more
> like a generator, actually makes me wonder whether a generator would
> be a better choice for processing large data sets, from databases and
> csv files, sequentially.  What do you think?

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> I wonder whether you really want lazy streams. -- Matthias

Yes, if you are just doing one-pass processing, then I think
generators would be a better choice. Streams do extra work to memoize
computations, which you won't need.





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