[Haskell-cafe] Weak hashtable memoization code?

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Thu Sep 15 11:11:20 EDT 2005


On 15 September 2005 13:44, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello Simon,
> 
> Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 7:42:52 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> There's the memo table implementation in the util package:
>> hslibs/util/Memo.lhs.  Note that this is scheduled for demolition in
>> GHC 
>> 6.6.
> 
> why?

It doesn't perform very well, there's a general lack of interest, and
nobody interested in supporting it.  The right thing to do is make it
available as a Cabal package.

Cheers,
	Simon


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