[Haskell-cafe] vector to uvector and back again

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

Great, thanks!

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Dan Doel <dan.doel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 26 February 2010 12:13:56 am Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > Dan, do you think you might be releasing your port of uvector-algorithms
> to
> > vector any time soon? I've ported mwc-random to use vector, and I'd like
> to
> > move statistics (which needs uvector-algorithms) and criterion (ditto)
> too.
>
> I don't want to hold anything up, so I've released the port to vector. It's
> available on hackage as vector-algorithms 0.3:
>
>  http://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-algorithms
>
> It's mostly a straight port, so not much new to learn.
>
> - There's no ".Array" in the module names anymore.
>
> - The Schwartzian transform combinators are gone from
>  Data.Vector.Algorithms.Combinators, because I haven't decided on the best
>  way to handle those yet (the existing implementation won't work on all
>  vectors in the MVector class). Hope that isn't a problem.
>
> - There's also a new module D.V.A.Search, which so far implements a couple
>  variations on binary search. It was something I was starting before the
>  switch to vector, so it isn't complete yet.
>
> There are some moderate performance regressions on some of the algorithms,
> but
> nothing major. Also, the optimizer in 6.12 seems to get very confused when
> working with IO as the PrimMonad in question, resulting in significantly
> worse
> performance. So, I'd recommend sticking with ST, or at least making sure
> the
> algorithms are called in ST, with stToIO. HEAD is better on both these
> fronts,
> so things should get better in the future.
>
> Let me know if there are any issues.*
>
> -- Dan
>
> * P.S. I just noticed I left the .cabal recommending -O2 and -fvia-c
> -optc-O3.
> That's obviously not current since the .cabal is set to compile with -Odph
> and
> with the NCG. I'll amend that in a later version. :)
>
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