ocaml-containers/README.md

ocaml-containers

A bunch of containers,written in different occasions. Not all containers are properly tested (see tests/ and make tests if you have installed OUnit).

The design is centerred around polymorphism rather than functors. Such structures comprise:

• PHashtbl, a polymorphic hashtable (with open addressing)
• SplayTree, a polymorphic splay heap implementation (not quite finished)
• SplayMap, a polymorphic functional map based on splay trees
• Heap, an imperative heap based on SplayTree
• Graph, a polymorphic imperative directed graph (on top of PHashtbl)
• Hashset, a polymorphic imperative set on top of PHashtbl
• LazyGraph, a lazy graph structure on arbitrary (hashable+eq) types, with basic graph functions that work even on infinite graphs, and printing to DOT.
• FQueue, a purely functional queue structure
• Heap, a purely functional polymorphic heap

Other structures are:

• Univ, a universal type encoding with affectation
• Cache, a low level memoization cache for unary and binary functions
• PersistentHashtbl, a semi-persistent hashtable (similar to persistent arrays)
• Deque, an imperative double ended FIFO (double-linked list)
• Future, a set of tools for preemptive threading, including a thread pool, monadic futures, and MVars (concurrent boxes)
• Vector, a growable array (pure OCaml, no C; not tested)
• FlatHashtbl, a (deprecated) open addressing hashtable with a functorial interface (replaced by PHashtbl)

Use

You can either build and install the library (see Build), or just copy files to your own project. The last solution has the benefits that you don't have additional dependencies nor build complications (and it may enable more inlining). I therefore recommand it for its simplicity.

If you have comments, requests, or bugfixes, please share them! :-)

Build

There are no dependencies (Sequence is included). Type:

$ make

To build and run tests (requires oUnit):

$ opam install oUnit
$ make tests
$ ./tests.native

To build the small benchmarking suite (requires Bench):

$ opam install bench
$ make bench
$ ./benchs.native

License

This code is free, under the BSD license.