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.
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