Hi I find it useful. I benchmarked it with criterion and your test file (see below) and it is a *lot* faster: warming up estimating clock resolution... mean is 3.776987 us (160001 iterations) found 887 outliers among 159999 samples (0.6%) 662 (0.4%) high severe estimating cost of a clock call... mean is 1.404134 us (27 iterations) found 5 outliers among 27 samples (18.5%) 1 (3.7%) low mild 1 (3.7%) high mild 3 (11.1%) high severe benchmarking randAccess IndexList mean: 2.614148 ms, lb 2.603860 ms, ub 2.642045 ms, ci 0.950 std dev: 79.90122 us, lb 33.73238 us, ub 165.6168 us, ci 0.950 found 13 outliers among 100 samples (13.0%) 12 (12.0%) high severe variance introduced by outliers: 25.781% variance is moderately inflated by outliers benchmarking randAccess list mean: 42.62869 ms, lb 42.38446 ms, ub 43.48986 ms, ci 0.950 std dev: 2.088308 ms, lb 598.3515 us, ub 4.751391 ms, ci 0.950 found 3 outliers among 100 samples (3.0%) 2 (2.0%) high severe variance introduced by outliers: 47.437% variance is moderately inflated by outliers benchmarking seqAccess IndexList mean: 6.347177 ms, lb 6.325560 ms, ub 6.369031 ms, ci 0.950 std dev: 111.3361 us, lb 102.5431 us, ub 123.4909 us, ci 0.950 variance introduced by outliers: 10.386% variance is moderately inflated by outliers benchmarking seqAccess list collecting 100 samples, 1 iterations each, in estimated 207.9468 s mean: 1.919024 s, lb 1.916933 s, ub 1.927423 s, ci 0.950 std dev: 19.69444 ms, lb 1.966086 ms, ub 46.74818 ms, ci 0.950 Maybe an elevator list is a nice name? Greets, Edgar module Main where import Criterion.Main import System.Random -- | Type of index wrapping an underlying list data LI a = LI Int [LInode a] data LInode a = LiNonLeaf (LInode a) (LInode a) | LiLeaf (LInode a) [a] -- | Constructs index from specified list and fanout fromList :: [a] -> Int -> LI a fromList l fo = let topLevel = mkTopLevelNode l mkTopLevelNode l = LiLeaf (mkTopLevelNode (drop fo l)) l mkLevel plv = let lv = mkMidLevelNode plv in lv : mkLevel lv mkMidLevelNode l = LiNonLeaf (mkMidLevelNode (nodeDrop fo l)) l in LI fo (topLevel : mkLevel topLevel) -- drop i nodes from a linear node stream nodeDrop :: Int -> LInode a -> LInode a nodeDrop 0 n = n nodeDrop i n = let i' = i - 1 in case n of LiNonLeaf n' _ -> nodeDrop i' n' LiLeaf n' _ -> nodeDrop i' n' -- | access specified element of underlying list using index to speed access (!) :: LI a -> Int -> a (!) (LI fo ns) i = let getLevel k (n : ns) = let (q,r) = k `quotRem` fo l = if q == 0 then n else parent $ getLevel q ns in nodeDrop r l parent (LiNonLeaf _ p) = p (q, r) = i `quotRem` fo (LiLeaf _ l) = getLevel q ns in l !! r a = [1 :: Int ..] b = fromList a 4 testSequential hi = [(!) b n | n <- [1,3..hi :: Int]] testSequentialList hi = [a!!n | n <- [1,3..hi :: Int]] randAccess hi = let seed = 12345813 g = mkStdGen seed lst = [1,3..hi] lst' = fromList lst 32 nIter = 1000 randR _ 0 = [] randR g n = let (a,g') = randomR (0, hi `div` 2 - 1) g n' = n - 1 --in (lst!!a) : randR g' n' in (lst'!a) : randR g' n' in sum $ randR g nIter -- main = putStrLn $ show $ randAccess randAccessList hi = let seed = 12345813 g = mkStdGen seed lst = [1,3..hi] nIter = 1000 randR _ 0 = [] randR g n = let (a,g') = randomR (0, hi `div` 2 - 1) g n' = n - 1 in (lst!!a) : randR g' n' in sum $ randR g nIter main = let hi = 50000 in defaultMain [ bench "randAccess IndexList" (nf (randAccess) hi), bench "randAccess list" (nf (randAccessList) hi), bench "seqAccess IndexList" (nf (testSequential) hi), bench "seqAccess list" (nf (testSequentialList) hi) ] On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Alex Stangl wrote:

Hi,

I have written a small "wrapper" to speed random-access to a list. The usage scenario I have in mind is a "stream" computation yielding an infinite list, and I want to randomly access elements w/o having to traverse the entire list from the beginning for each access.

I suspected something similar must already exist, but nothing I looked at seemed to do the trick. IntMap seems to want a finite input list. Ditto for the various array types, except possibly dynamic array.

Attached is the list indexer I came up with, and a small test program (I swap the commented-out lines to switch btw. list & list index tests). I am interested to hear any feedback on this -- whether it duplicates something that already exists, or whether there's a better approach, and comments on the code, etc. Also if somebody can suggest a better name (so as not to overlay the word index too much.) I'll publish it on hackage (or at least github) if people think it's useful. It sped up the program I initally wrote it for enormously.

Thanks,

Alex

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