[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Speed

[Simon Marlow]

On 30 December 2005 01:23, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote:

> Probably.  The minimum table chunk size was rather large.  I have
> been experimenting (tests are running even as I type) with alternate
> implementations of Data.HashTable.  So far the winning implementation
> is one based on multiplicative hashing and simple table doubling.
> This seems to be consistently competitive with / faster than
> Data.Map.  At this point my inclination is to make the whole suite
> available:
> 
> Data.HashTable.Class
> Data.HashTable.DataMap
> Data.HashTable.Doubling
> Data.HashTable.Flat
> Data.HashTable.Freeze
> Data.HashTable.Modulus
> Data.HashTable.Multiplicative
> Data.HashTable.Original
> Data.HashTable.Test
> Data.HashTable
> 
> I've separated out the hashing technique (Modulus, Multiplicative)
> from the hash table implementation.  Note that a few of the above are
> bogus, and this is only a fraction of the implementations tried thus
> far.
> 
> I need to get distribution clearance for a bunch of this code from my
> employer, and figure out how to package it.  The latter may be
> tricky, as Data.Hashtable is currently rather intimately tied to a
> bunch of rather tricky bits of GHC.

I wonder if you could put together a drop-in replacement for
Data.HashTable that we can incorporate?  There's not much point in us
still providing the inefficient version as standard after you've done
all this work to figure out how to do it better.

Cheers,
	Simon