<div dir="ltr">that additional representation invariant requirement is why i ultimately chose not to include the user space version of davids work in primitive <div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/haskell/primitive/pull/194">https://github.com/haskell/primitive/pull/194</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>theres some really clever ideas, but i couldnt tease apart a natural example of where i'd want to use it</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:56 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">The result doesn't have to be a pair. It can be a tuple of any size at all. Indeed, it can even be an arbitrary record type whose first pointer field has the appropriate type.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I think that is 100.0% undocumented, in the code, or in the proposal. Are you sure this is a settled consensus among the interested parties?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Adopting it would impose new invariants on the representation of values in GHC that I am deeply reluctant to impose. I would much much prefer to stick with the pair that is (somewhat) documented.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">About pair vs Unit, yes, I can see (just) your point about why a pair might be useful. Here’s a better example:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Suppose mv :: MutVar# Int<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="gmail-m_-6914723076349748819Code">atomicModifyMutVar2# mv $ \a -><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="gmail-m_-6914723076349748819Code"> let foo = f a<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Now, if f is expensive,
<i>and g is not invertible</i>, then sharing foo might be useful. It’s hard to think of a credible example, though. Regardless, we should document it.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> David Feuer <<a href="mailto:david.feuer@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.feuer@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 11 October 2019 17:03<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ghc-devs <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: atomicModifyMutVar2<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 11:08 AM Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m deeply puzzled atomicModifyMutVar2#. I have read
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the proposal</a>, and the comments in primops.txt.pp (reproduced below).<u></u><u></u></p>
<h1>Question 1<u></u><u></u></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">I think the “real” type of atomicModifyMutVar2 is
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<p class="MsoNormal">Close, but not quite. The result doesn't have to be a pair. It can be a tuple of any size at all. Indeed, it can even be an arbitrary record type whose first pointer field has the appropriate type.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Nowhere is this explicitly stated, but I believe that the intended semantics of a call<u></u><u></u></p>
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The primop builds a thunk <b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">t </span></b>=
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The new value of the mutable variable is <b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">(fst t)</span></b><u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-6914723076349748819m-3683590175518582062msolistparagraph">
The result <b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">r</span></b> is t<u></u><u></u></li><li class="gmail-m_-6914723076349748819m-3683590175518582062msolistparagraph">
The result <b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">x</span></b> is <b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">old</span></b><u></u><u></u></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal">Question: is that correct? We should state it explicitly.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, that sounds right.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next question: Why does f have to return a pair? So far as I can tell, it’s only so that a client can force it. The ‘b’ part never seems to play a useful role. So we could
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<p class="gmail-m_-6914723076349748819m-3683590175518582062code"> -> (# State# s, a, Unit a #)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">where Unit is defined in Data.Tuple<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now you can force the result of (f old), just as with a pair. But the ‘b’ would no longer complicate matters.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Question: is the ‘b’ in the pair significant? Or could we use Unit?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it's somewhat significant. You actually can use Unit with the new primop (it's a tuple of arity 1), so that option is free. But using a pair gets you a bit more: you can build a thunk that's *shared* between the value installed in
the MutVar and the one returned to the outside. Consider<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> let foo = expensive_computation a<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the comments below you say "but we don't know about pairs here”. Are you sure? What stops you importing Data.Tuple into GHC.Prim? This fancy footwork is one more complication,
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<p class="MsoNormal">That whole regime came before my time, but since we win a bit by *not* fixing it, o wouldn't jump on it too quick.<u></u><u></u></p>
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