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David Feuer

3 Apr 2016 3 Apr '16

3:05 a.m.

I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667 Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant? {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>)) -- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys [] -- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest -- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys -- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]] Thanks, David

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Arseniy Alekseyev

3 Apr 3 Apr

4:16 a.m.

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I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in performance: i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys) The program I'm benchmarking is: main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]] On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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David Feuer

4:38 a.m.

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Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

...
I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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Arseniy Alekseyev

4:39 a.m.

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Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :) On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

...
I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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David Feuer

4:41 a.m.

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

...
Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

...
I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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Arseniy Alekseyev

5:04 a.m.

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I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it! i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys [] Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :) On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

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Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

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Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

...
I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: that

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the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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David Feuer

5:14 a.m.

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I choose the `force (map head)` attack. On Apr 3, 2016 1:04 AM, "Arseniy Alekseyev" wrote:

I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it!

i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys

interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys []

Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

...
Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

...
Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours

in

...
...
performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote:

...
I ran into a fun question today: http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667

Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: that

...
...
...
...
the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and elegant?

{-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} import Data.Monoid import Data.Foldable (toList) import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>))

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys []

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the -- given prefix to each result and continuing with -- a given list to append interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest

-- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom -- the results onto the given list. interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys

-- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's -- anything terribly interesting to do here. interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]]

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David Feuer

5:17 a.m.

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By the way, I have a bit of an unfair advantage because a lot of these things came up in the redesign of Data.List.inits. I know I can improve my constant factors by using a simpler, less flexible queue implementation than Data.Sequence, but that's a whole different issue. On Apr 3, 2016 1:14 AM, "David Feuer" wrote:

I choose the `force (map head)` attack. On Apr 3, 2016 1:04 AM, "Arseniy Alekseyev" wrote:

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I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it!

i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys

interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys []

Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

...
Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

...
Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours

in

...
...
performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote: > > I ran into a fun question today: > http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667 > > Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: that

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> the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most > efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids > left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does > anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and > elegant? > > {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} > import Data.Monoid > import Data.Foldable (toList) > import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>)) > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists > interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] > interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys [] > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the > -- given prefix to each result and continuing with > -- a given list to append > interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = > (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) > : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for > -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom > -- the results onto the given list. > interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id > interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id > interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = > interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . > interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys > > -- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's > -- anything terribly interesting to do here. > interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]] > > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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5:20 a.m.

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Er.. I mean force . map head On Apr 3, 2016 1:14 AM, "David Feuer" wrote:

I choose the `force (map head)` attack. On Apr 3, 2016 1:04 AM, "Arseniy Alekseyev" wrote:

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I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it!

i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys

interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys []

Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

...
Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

...
Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

...
I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours

in

...
...
performance:

i2 [] ys = [ys] i2 xs [] = [xs] i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys)

The program I'm benchmarking is:

main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]]

On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote: > > I ran into a fun question today: > http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667 > > Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: that

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> the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most > efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids > left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does > anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and > elegant? > > {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} > import Data.Monoid > import Data.Foldable (toList) > import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>)) > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists > interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] > interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys [] > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the > -- given prefix to each result and continuing with > -- a given list to append > interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = > (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) > : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest > > -- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for > -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom > -- the results onto the given list. > interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id > interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id > interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = > interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . > interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys > > -- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's > -- anything terribly interesting to do here. > interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] > interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]] > > > Thanks, > David > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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Arseniy Alekseyev

6:05 a.m.

New subject: Fastest way to calculate all the ways to interleave two lists

That (specifically, the benchmark below) shows your thing is faster, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because Seq is cheaper than a closure, but maybe it's something more meaningful than that. Looks like you've guided myself roughly to your original solution now so I'm giving up. :) main = print $ sum $ map head $ take 1000000 $ interleavings [[1..100],[5..100]] On 3 April 2016 at 06:20, David Feuer wrote:

Er.. I mean force . map head On Apr 3, 2016 1:14 AM, "David Feuer" wrote:

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I choose the `force (map head)` attack. On Apr 3, 2016 1:04 AM, "Arseniy Alekseyev" wrote:

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I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it!

i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys

interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys []

Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

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Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote:

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Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: > I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating

yours in

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> performance: > > i2 [] ys = [ys] > i2 xs [] = [xs] > i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = > fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys) > > The program I'm benchmarking is: > > main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings > [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]] > > > > On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote: >> >> I ran into a fun question today: >> http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667 >> >> Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote: that

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>> the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most >> efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids >> left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does >> anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and >> elegant? >> >> {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} >> import Data.Monoid >> import Data.Foldable (toList) >> import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>)) >> >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists >> interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] >> interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys [] >> >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the >> -- given prefix to each result and continuing with >> -- a given list to append >> interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] >> interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = >> (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) >> : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest >> >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for >> -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom >> -- the results onto the given list. >> interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] >> interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id >> interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id >> interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = >> interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . >> interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys >> >> -- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's >> -- anything terribly interesting to do here. >> interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] >> interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]] >> >> >> Thanks, >> David >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >

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Arseniy Alekseyev

2:03 p.m.

New subject: Fastest way to calculate all the ways to interleave two lists

I asked David off-list and he explained that the reason his version is faster is that `head . toList` on Seq is O(1) and the equivalent operation on difference lists is O(n). Now I want to have a fingertree-backed [Function a b] type. :) On 3 April 2016 at 07:05, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

That (specifically, the benchmark below) shows your thing is faster, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because Seq is cheaper than a closure, but maybe it's something more meaningful than that. Looks like you've guided myself roughly to your original solution now so I'm giving up. :)

main = print $ sum $ map head $ take 1000000 $ interleavings [[1..100],[5..100]]

On 3 April 2016 at 06:20, David Feuer wrote:

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Er.. I mean force . map head On Apr 3, 2016 1:14 AM, "David Feuer" wrote:

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I choose the `force (map head)` attack. On Apr 3, 2016 1:04 AM, "Arseniy Alekseyev" wrote:

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I see! At this point I'd say that you probably have the wrong type: there are ways to produce n'th interleaving much faster, but let's continue optimizing for the hell of it!

i2 :: ([a] -> [b]) -> [a] -> [a] -> [[b]] -> [[b]] i2 f [] ys = (f ys :) i2 f xs [] = (f xs :) i2 f (x : xs) (y : ys) = i2 (f . (x :)) xs (y : ys) . i2 (f . (y :)) (x : xs) ys

interleave2 xs ys = i2 id xs ys []

Seems faster than your original solution on examples I tried it on and it has fewer characters. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:41, David Feuer wrote:

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Of course, but something like take k . (!! m) will cut it down nicely.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev wrote:

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Um, the result is exponential in size. A problem will emerge in any solution. :)

On 3 April 2016 at 05:38, David Feuer wrote: > > Your lists are very short. Pump them up to thousands of elements each > and you will see a problem emerge in the naive solution. > > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Arseniy Alekseyev > wrote: > > I measure the following naive solution of interleave2 beating yours in > > performance: > > > > i2 [] ys = [ys] > > i2 xs [] = [xs] > > i2 (x : xs) (y : ys) = > > fmap (x :) (i2 xs (y : ys)) ++ fmap (y :) (i2 (x : xs) ys) > > > > The program I'm benchmarking is: > > > > main = print $ sum $ map sum $ interleavings > > [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12],[1,1,1]] > > > > > > > > On 3 April 2016 at 04:05, David Feuer wrote: > >> > >> I ran into a fun question today: > >> http://stackoverflow.com/q/36342967/1477667 > >> > >> Specifically, it asks how to find all ways to interleave lists so that > >> the order of elements within each list is preserved. The most > >> efficient way I found is copied below. It's nicely lazy, and avoids > >> left-nested appends. Unfortunately, it's pretty seriously ugly. Does > >> anyone have any idea of a way to do this that's both efficient and > >> elegant? > >> > >> {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} > >> import Data.Monoid > >> import Data.Foldable (toList) > >> import Data.Sequence (Seq, (|>)) > >> > >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists > >> interleave2 :: [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] > >> interleave2 xs ys = interleave2' mempty xs ys [] > >> > >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists, adding the > >> -- given prefix to each result and continuing with > >> -- a given list to append > >> interleave2' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > >> interleave2' !prefix xs ys rest = > >> (toList prefix ++ xs ++ ys) > >> : interleave2'' prefix xs ys rest > >> > >> -- Find all ways to interleave two lists except for > >> -- the trivial case of just appending them. Glom > >> -- the results onto the given list. > >> interleave2'' :: Seq a -> [a] -> [a] -> [[a]] -> [[a]] > >> interleave2'' !prefix [] _ = id > >> interleave2'' !prefix _ [] = id > >> interleave2'' !prefix xs@(x : xs') ys@(y : ys') = > >> interleave2' (prefix |> y) xs ys' . > >> interleave2'' (prefix |> x) xs' ys > >> > >> -- What the question poser wanted; I don't *think* there's > >> -- anything terribly interesting to do here. > >> interleavings :: [[a]] -> [[a]] > >> interleavings = foldr (concatMap . interleave2) [[]] > >> > >> > >> Thanks, > >> David > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > >

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