[Haskell-cafe] ANN: unordered-containers - a new, faster hashing-based containers library

[Max Bolingbroke]

On 23 February 2011 12:05, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net> wrote:
> I've been working on one lately, some preliminary benchmarks:
>
>    https://gist.github.com/826935
>
> It's probably a month or two away from a releasable state, but my
> work-in-progress is substantially faster (4-6X) than Data.Hashtable
> for inserts and lookups.

Sounds cool. Can you use your HashTable in the ST monad? I have often
found myself wanting a mutable hashtable as a subcomponent in an
externally-pure computation.

Max