Performance horrors

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 27 08:57:43 EDT 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2- Data.Set is not obviously the best underlying implementation (in
>> fact it is obviously not the best underlying implementation, this and
>> Data.Map etc really should be pensioned off to hackage along with the
>> rest of the badly documented, unreliable, inefficient and unstable
>> junk :-)
>
> Data.Set is an interface, which you seem to think is not the fastest
> implementation of that interface. If you can expose the same
> interface, but improve the performance, and demonstrate that the
> performance is better, then go for it! I'd support such a library
> change proposal.

The problem with Data.Set and other collection types is that they're
*not* defined as interfaces. If Data.Set was defined using a type
class and maybe some associated data types it would be easier to
provide an alternative implementation.

Cheers,

Johan


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