On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:
I personally would rather have one IntMap with strict and lazy APIs.

I am also in favour of the "same type approach" because it seems it can help to avoid duplicating the implementations. Would it be efficient to define a type Data.IntMap.Strict.IntMap with strict fields (also for values) and then define Data.IntMap.Lazy in terms of this implementation and a wrapper type?

data Lazy a = Lazy { getLazy :: a }

newtype IntMap a = LazyIntMap { getLazyIntMap :: Data.IntMap.Strict (Lazy a) }

lookup :: Int -> IntMap a -> Maybe a
lookup n = fmap getLazy . Data.IntMap.Strict.lookup n . getLazyIntMap

...

Sebastian