[Haskell-cafe] How to use STArray?

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: Ketil Malde [mailto:ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no] 
> 
> Greg Buchholz <haskell at sleepingsquirrel.org> writes:
> 
> > Diff arrays have an immutable interface, but rely on 
> internal updates in
> > place to provide fast functional update operator //.
> 
> While a cool concept, ISTR that somebody benchmarked these some time
> ago, and found the performance to be fairly poor in practice.  Has
> that changed lately, or am I just misremembering? 

DiffArray certainly improved the execution time of my program (the execution
time was dominated by array updates, so no surprise there). I should have
said that I'm also concerned with space usage; I'd like to allocate the
arrays at the beginning and expect that to be all of the memory required, so
that's another reason to be interested in mutable arrays.

Alistair.

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