Open ShapeOfMatter opened 4 months ago
The difficulty here is that some recipients may already know the inner data, and they should retain the abilty to use it. so this likely needs to be done after soem refinements to avoid redundant sends, and also when we have some tools for handling set intersections and unions.
I'm pretty sure this will have to get baked in as a primitive. Given that it's not fully general; that's unfortunate. Anyway, the point is that we can get ~50% of the way to patching the efficiency gap to chor-lambda if we have an op like
What this would do/how it would work is it would apply
void
to the located functor, send that, and the recipient would mapconst Empty
over it to replay the()
s with "not here". This would let one send a top level structure without sending all the data. Afterward, everyone would be able to branch on the outer functor's structure, even though onlyms
would be able to unwrap its contents.