[windlep]

I meant more that languages with an iterator/generator usually have similar constant space usage. That is a drastic oversimplification of stream fusion and fails to mention other practical outcomes as you mention, along with a variety of optimizations.

I found this posting a little more approachable to seeing the various optimizations possible with stream fusion: https://donsbot.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/haskell-as-fast-as-...