Comparing Libraries for Generic Programming in Haskell
Rapport, 2008

Datatype-generic programming is defining functions that depend on the structure, or ``shape'', of datatypes. It has been around for more than 10 years, and a lot of progress has been made, in particular in the lazy functional programming language Haskell. There are more than 10 proposals for generic programming libraries or language extensions for Haskell. To compare and characterize the many generic programming libraries in a typed functional language, we introduce a set of criteria and develop a generic programming benchmark: a set of characteristic examples testing various facets of datatype-generic programming. We have implemented the benchmark for nine existing Haskell generic programming libraries and present the evaluation of the libraries. The comparison is useful for reaching a common standard for generic programming, but also for a programmer who has to choose a particular approach for datatype-generic programming. [Technical report version.]

Polytypic Programming

Functional Programming

Författare

Alexey Rodriguez

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik

Johan Jeuring

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik

Patrik Jansson

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik

Alex Gerdes

Göteborgs universitet

Oleg Kiselyov

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik

Bruno C D S Oliveira

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik

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Programvaruteknik

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