nubBy is a very good suggestion. Added! Regarding good hash functions: if your data structure is algebraic, you can derive generic and Hashable will give you a pretty good hash function:
> data ADT a = C0 Int String | C1 [a] > deriving Generic > > instance Hashable a => Hashable (ADT a) It's magic! - Clark On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe <o...@cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 16/07/2013, at 3:21 PM, Clark Gaebel wrote: >> >> I'm still against having an Ord version, since my intuition tells me >> that hash-based data structures are faster than ordered ones. > > There are at least four different things that "an Ord version" might > mean: > > - first sort a list, then eliminate duplicates > - sort a list eliminating duplicates stably as you go > (think 'merge sort', using 'union' instead of 'merge') > - build a balanced tree set as you go > - having a list that is already sorted, use that to > eliminated duplicates cheaply. > > These things have different costs. For example, if there are N > elements of which U are unique, the first as O(N.log N) cost, > the third has O(N.log U) cost, and the fourth has O(N) cost. > > What I want is more often ordNubBy than ordNub, though. > >> Someone >> else can write the patch, though! >> >> As a tangent, can anyone think of a data structure for which you can >> write an Ord instance but Hashable/Eq is impossible (or prove >> otherwise)? How about the converse? > > Since Ord has Eq as a superclass, and since 0 is a functionally > correct hash value for anything, if you can implement Ord you > can obviously implement Hashable/Eq. Whether it is *useful* to > do so is another question. > > It turns out that it _is_ possible to define good quality hash > functions on sets, but most code in the field to do so is pretty bad. > (Just a modular sum or exclusive or.) > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe