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@remexre remexre commented Feb 2, 2021

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Adds sets, maps, and multimaps implemented directly in Silver.
This lets them share structure, which should reduce peak memory use and GC pressure.

This is on top of feature/docgen, so waiting on it to be merged first.

Documentation

  • A comment on the implementation points to a better explanation than I can write of the deletion algorithm
  • The basic RBT operations are as in Okasaki (I suppose I could put a page number etc there too)
  • Doc comments are yet to be written, will do that before making this no-longer-a-draft
  • I still need to implement join and split; I'll comment those once they're written

Testing

  • Property tests would be worth doing?

Performance

  • I'll start using these in Silver and do actual performance comparisons before this is merged.
  • The case where I think this is an obvious win is synthesized attributes that are sets, which are currently (often) represented as linked lists.
  • Eric and I briefly discussed having a more generic environment library; in principle, I'd assume that one could do one that saved a bunch of work with laziness.

TODOs

  • join, split (for faster set operations)
  • Write doc comments
  • Use these in Silver
  • Compare performance to treeset

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