lazy evaluation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.
Example Sentences
- "By default, Haskell uses an execution strategy called lazy evaluation. Under laziness, an expression is never evaluated until it is needed for the evaluation of a larger one."