hgraph/submodules/haskell-ordnub/README.md

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ordnub
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Data.List.nub is O(n²). This one is O(n log n) by requiring an Ord instance.
* Also contains a benchmark (`report.html`) that shows that `ordNub` apparently is faster than `nub` in *all* cases.
* `PACKAGES_USING_NUB.txt` contains all packages which use `nub` (made with a quick grep).
It's not the most accurate since some packages define their own `nub`, but that's a minority.
**This thing here is not a library.** It is a benchmark suite. [View results here](http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/nh2/haskell-ordnub/blob/master/report.html).
Don't use nub
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If you are looking for a fast `ordNub` function to use in your code, you can use:
```haskell
import qualified Data.Set as Set
ordNub :: (Ord a) => [a] -> [a]
ordNub l = go Set.empty l
where
go _ [] = []
go s (x:xs) = if x `Set.member` s then go s xs
else x : go (Set.insert x s) xs
```
### Other Data.List functions you NEVER want to use
`\\`, `union`, `intersect`