Bradley Mann
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When to be lazy, and when to be eager, when querying the database
Generally, optimizations in the evaluator try to be lazy whenever they can when evaluating functions. This allows the application to process data only when needed and limits memory use to only what is needed. But sometimes, you need to evaluate eagerly to improve performance. Here we discuss one use case when it is best to specify eager evaluation.
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