specialisation
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specialisation
A reduction in generality, usually for the sake of increased
efficiency. If a piece of code is specialised for certain
values of certain variables (usually function arguments), this
is known as "partial evaluation". In a language with
overloading (e.g. Haskell), an overloaded function might be
specialised to a non-overloaded instance at compile-time if
the types of its arguments are known.