[Haskell-cafe] Boxed Mutable Arrays

Matt Morrow moonpatio at gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 21:35:54 EST 2009


What are peoples' thoughts on this?
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/650#comment:16

Matt

On 12/14/09, Brad Larsen <brad.larsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone working on fixing ticket #650
> <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/650>?  In short, STArray
> and the garbage collector don't play well together, resulting in array
> updates being non-constant time operations.  This bug makes it very
> difficult/impossible to write efficient array algorithms that depend
> upon mutation in Haskell.
>
> On another note, does this (or perhaps better phrased, will this) bug
> also affect Data Parallel Haskell?
>
> I would really like to see highly efficient, mutable, boxed arrays in
> Haskell!  Unfortunately, I don't have the know-how to fix Ticket 650.
>
> Sincerely,
> Brad
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