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Turing-completeness != un-optimizable! Literally the areas of type systems and compilers exist to serve this endeavor. It's gotta be a meme at this point every time someone brings up the halting problem or rice's theorem.


I don't think anybody claims it's unoptimizable. It's just a harder task, compared to a more constrained system.


Right, but the type system is the constraint. Nobody's gonna take the untyped lambda calculus and run it on an accelerator. Even something like turing-completeness can be a type annotation, for example, the totality effect provided by languages like Koka.


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