lazy evaluation

Noun

Meaning

lazy evaluation (plural lazy evaluations)

(computing) Any of a variety of computing techniques that delay the computation of expressions until (and unless) the results are needed.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Antonyms

eager evaluation strict evaluation

Examples

Lazy evaluation allows control structures to be defined normally, and not as primitives or compile-time techniques. Source: Internet

Lazy evaluation does not evaluate function arguments unless their values are required to evaluate the function call itself. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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