[Haskell-cafe] Efficient mutable arrays in STM

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ketil Malde <ketil at malde.org> wrote:

> You must be a lot more confident than I if you say this without
> benchmarking first. :-) IME, there are (at least) two possible problems
> here, 1) transactions scale (quadratically, I think) with the number of
> TVars touched, so if any transaction touch a large part of the array,
> it's going to cost you, [...]


That woud remain true no matter what, but the current quadratic behaviour is
I believe easily enough fixed by switching to a better data structure than a
list.
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