SPECIALISATION


Meaning of SPECIALISATION in English

A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this is known as " partial evaluation ". In a language with overloading (e.g. Haskell ), an overloaded function might be specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if the types of its arguments are known.

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