[Haskell-cafe] Incredibly slow type-level Nub

[Nickolay Kudasov]

Dmitry,

Well, actually, I was not aware that singletons provide this functionality!

>From what I see singletons seem to be an overkill for my use case.

Thanks for the hint though, I will look into singletons more to see if it
fits the bill.

Kind regards,
Nick

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 at 13:21 Dmitry Olshansky <olshanskydr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I wonder if singletons <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/singletons> library
> doesn't satisfy your requrements? Did you look at this opportunity? Here
> <https://hackage.haskell.org/package/singletons-2.0.1/docs/Data-Promotion-Prelude-List.html#t:Nub> is
> a Nub implementation.
>
> I am particulary interested in this because I am checking now this library
> for usung it in my project. Had you some reasons to refuse it?
>
> Best regards,
> Dmitry
>
> 2016-02-07 16:37 GMT+03:00 Nickolay Kudasov <nickolay.kudasov at gmail.com>:
>
>> Dear Cafe,
>>
>> I have faced a type-level performance problem (with GHC 7.10.3).
>> I am trying to implement type-level Nub which removes duplicates from a
>> type-level list.
>>
>> My implementation [1] with an example of a list of length 20 takes
>> forever to compile. If you reduce the size of the example list (e.g. to 15
>> items), it will compile faster. Also, if you remove the Nub application
>> from exampleVals, it compiles instantly (this is how I know the problem is
>> in Nub).
>>
>> My question is how can I speed up type-level Nub?
>> And less importantly why exactly is it this slow?
>>
>> The practical application for this is building automatic tests [2] for
>> servant-swagger. There I am interested in generating exactly one test for
>> each distinct type.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Nick
>>
>> [1] https://gist.github.com/fizruk/06458fe8b62a1e562af1
>> [2]
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant-swagger-1.0.2/docs/Servant-Swagger-Test.html
>>
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