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Yes, but due to lazy-evaluation that won't happen until you do something with the sorted list. Your performance may just blow up in some seemingly unrelated place.

My biggest problem with Haskell is how GC and lazy-evaluation makes it very difficult to reason about what the hardware is actually doing at a given point. I know there ways to inspect and control it, but I've found myself preferring languages that have simpler mental models.



Right, by the time you have to control it, you are washing away all the advantages for using it.




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