purescript-js-maps

FFI bindings for Javascript Maps

This is basically a fork of purescript-foreign-object and purescript-object-maps using Javascript Maps instead of Javascript Objects.

This library contains two objects Map k v from JS.Map and JS.Map.Primitive. The latter has better performances that the former but can only be used with Javascript primitive values (Int, String, BigInt) as keys. The former can be used with every key that is an instance of the class EncodeKey.

Both objects have efficient lookups but inefficient insertion performance ( O(n) time complexity ). However, both objects have a mutable version STMap that can be used via the ST monad. In this case, insertions (via poke) are also efficient.

Documentation is published on Pursuit

spago install js-maps

import Control.Monad.ST (for)
import JS.Map.Primitive (Map)
import JS.Map.Primitive.ST as STM

sample :: Map Int String
sample = STM.run do
  m <- STM.new
  for 1 10000 \i -> do
    STM.poke_ i (show i) m
  pure m

Js.Map.Primitive is faster than other alternatives on lookup and insertion (via poke) using Int (30000 lookups and 30000 insertions).