[Haskell-cafe] mutable arrays of tuples

[Ketil Malde]

David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> writes:

> So I was thinking about a mutable array of tuples, but to avoid allocating
> tuples to modify their fields, I guess I really want an immutable array of
> tuples of STRefs. Just how much less efficient is this than a plain mutable
> array? might it even make sense to use parallel mutable arrays? The thought
> of that is disgusting to me, but at least one of the arrays could likely be
> made unboxed...

Maybe you could use a tuple of (unboxed) arrays instead?  Or if you use
Vector instead of Array, I think tuples are member of Unbox (as long as
the tuple elements are), and can be used directly in unboxed vectors.

-k
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