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Mon Nov 13 10:53:07 EST 2017

Why are abstract sinks such a good abstraction?

Why is this such a good abstraction compared to left fold?

The problem with left fold for embedded software is the reliance on
allocation to produce the results.  While calling a function to
produce a result is abstract, this is not so easy to do in C in an
efficient manner.  This would only work well if there were some kind
of linear allocator.

It seems more sense to avoid it all together, and have the iterator do
less: just push elements into some other (stateful) object.

Essentially, it is cheaper to have "multitasking" in C than it is to
have fully abstract function evaluation!

Let's call sinks/sources what they are usually called: channels.



So, doing this at compile time needs a transformation between folds
and channel programming.

It would be interesting to do this first in a language that has
accessible tasks such as Erlang.

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