Containers and strictness

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I definitely agree that unboxing can help a great deal with performance and
> space utilization.
>
> However, as containers does not currently require any exotic extensions, I
> think that perhaps a type family -based generic map would belong in another
> 'unboxed-containers' or 'adaptive-containers' package (both of which
> currently exist on hackage), as it dramatically extends the language
> extension footprint of containers, taking it from something that easily runs
> across a wide array of Haskell implementations to something very
> ghc-specific.
>

Good point. I plan to look into such a library this summer. Any
non-strictness related API improvements to the containers package (e.g.
strict folds) should carry over to a new, adaptable containers package.

-- Johan
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