[Haskell-cafe] Looking for an efficient tree in STM

[Einar Karttunen]

On 08.03 13:32, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> > This seems suprisingly hard to implement - a normal binary tree with
> > links as TVar is very slow and does not scale very well.
> 
> By "normal" you mean unbalanced? Do you think it's slow because it's not
> balanced, or because of STM?

Unbalanced in this case because balancing produces even more problematic
effects (TVar writes). I used random inserts in the test which kept the tree in
a good balance, and tested the same tree without STM to see whether that
was the problem - so I am fairly sure that balancing is not the issue.

- Einar Karttunen