AVL trees for Data.Map and Data.Set

[John Meacham]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:34:58AM +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Friday, March 3, 2006, 1:10:17 AM, you wrote:
> 
> JM> Would it be possible to mock up an implementation of this using
> JM> Data.Generics by chance? so we can use a generalized tree for anything
> 
> are you know that Data.Generics has run-time overheads and therefore
> can be several times slower than fixed algorithm or algorithm
> generated at compile time (for example, by TH) ?
> 
> JM> <noise>
> JM> once get get derived generalized tries, I want to try derived
> JM> generalized huffman (arithmetic?) encoding, derived generalized LZ*, and
> JM> a derived generalized efficient 'diff' algorithm...
> JM> </noise>
> 
> and this will be 1000 times slower that C implementations

Oh yes. I am completly aware of that. I just find the algorithms
fascinating. DrIFT would be the obvious real way to go for haskell (or
TH if you are into that sort of thing) or perhaps c-generated haskell...

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