Hi,
is there any way to perform a destructive update on a plain ADT?
Hi Milan, perhaps this is a dumb question, but given that you're using a lazy functional language: why do you want to do destructive updates at all?
Perhaps you'd be better off using an imperative/object-oriented language?
I am one of the maintainers of the containers package, so I definitely want to stick to Haskell :) The reason for me wanting to do destructive updates is speed -- if I could perform destructive updates during the construction of persistent structure (e.g., inside Data.Map.fromList), the performance would improve.
... I would like just to run some benchmarks and see the results.
Running benchmarks for destructive updates in Haskell seems a waste of time(?)
Johan successfully improved unordered-containers by using destructive updates during construction, but he is using Array# where destructive updates are possible. I was wondering if I could do similar thing in containers... Cheers, Milan