[Haskell-cafe] using Map rather than FiniteMap

[Ketil Malde]

"S. Alexander Jacobson" <alex at alexjacobson.com> writes:

> Just did a search after my last post and learned that FiniteMap is
> bad.  Discoverd that Data.Map is the intended replacement.  Downloaded
> it and modified it to work with 6.2.  Blazingly fast!

Oh?  I was aware that Data.Map was supposed to be better, but not that
FiniteMap was particularly bad.  Is there any information about 
when, why and by how much Data.Map is better?

-kzm
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