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Delayed clause-construction (DCC), used in the theorem prover CARINE, is a stalling strategy that enhances a theorem prover's performance by reducing the work to construct clauses to a minimum. Instead of constructing every conclusion (clause) of an applied inference rule, the information to construct such clause is temporarily stored until the theorem prover decides to either discard the clause or construct it. If the theorem prover decides to keep the clause, it will be constructed and stored in memory, otherwise the information to construct the clause is erased. DCC is useful when too many intermmediate clauses are being constructed and discarded in a short period of time because the operations performed to construct such short lived clauses are avoided. (See also ATP System Carine)