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interface Box
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exposes [box, unbox]
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imports []
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## Allocate a value on the heap. Boxing is an expensive process as it copies
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## the value from the stack to the heap. This may provide a performance
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## optimization for advanced use cases with large values. A platform may require
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## that some values are boxed.
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## ```
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## expect Box.unbox (Box.box "Stack Faster") == "Stack Faster"
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## ```
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box : a -> Box a
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## Returns a boxed value.
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## ```
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## expect Box.unbox (Box.box "Stack Faster") == "Stack Faster"
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## ```
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unbox : Box a -> a
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# # we'd need reset/reuse for box for this to be efficient
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# # that is currently not implemented
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# map : Box a, (a -> b) -> Box b
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# map = \boxed, transform =
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# boxed
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# |> Box.unbox
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# |> transform
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# |> Box.box
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