proposal: reimplement Data.Graph.Inductive.Query.Dominators
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Mon Apr 21 18:35:44 EDT 2008
bertram.felgenhauer:
> Hi,
>
> (this is Trac ticket #2227,
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2227)
>
> As pointed out at
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-April/041739.html
> ff., Data.Graph.Inductive.Query.Dominators.dom is buggy. Furthermore,
> it's slow, so instead of submitting the quick fix from that thread,
> I've rewritten the module from scratch using a more efficient algorithm.
>
> The algorithm works by calculating the immediate dominators of the graph
> nodes first, so the patch also adds a function that returns those. It
> should be handy for flow graph analysis.
>
> Deadline for discussion ... is a week sufficient?
> That would be April 28th.
>
fgl is maintained by Martin Erwig, for these kind of non-core libraries
its easier/faster to submit the patch directly to the maintainer.
If the maintainer times out (possible here), we can declare it orphaned,
and its free game.
-- Don
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