lazywave
Lazywave is a term used in programming to describe an approach or library that combines lazy evaluation with streaming data to produce on-demand, potentially unbounded sequences of values. In this model, individual elements are not computed until they are consumed, and the consumption process propagates backpressure to the producer to avoid overwhelming the downstream components. The concept emphasizes composability, allowing simple transformations to be chained into more complex data pipelines without materializing entire collections in memory.
Typical architectures define the producer of a wave, a set of operators that transform or filter elements,
Common use cases include processing very large or infinite datasets, progressive rendering of UI lists, and
Limitations include potential complexity, harder debugging, and subtle semantics around side effects. Implementations must carefully manage
See also: lazy evaluation, streams, reactive programming, backpressure, on-demand computation.