eager evaluation
eager evaluation
The term "speculative evaluation" is very close in meaningto eager evaluation but is applied mostly to parallelarchitectures whereas eager evaluation is used of bothsequential and parallel evaluators.
Eager evaluation does not specify exactly when argumentevaluation takes place - it might be done fully speculatively(all redexes in the program reduced in parallel) or may bedone by the caller just before the function is entered.
The term "eager evaluation" was invented by Carl Hewitt andHenry Baker
See also conservative evaluation, lenient evaluation,strict evaluation.