[Hs-Generics] Paper about comparing libraries

[Johan Jeuring]

Dear generics-subscribers,

I announced our attempt to write a paper for the Haskell workshop on  
this list more than a month ago. I'm afraid we failed. Not because we  
have been lazy, but because it turned out to be more work to perform  
all the tests and evaluations. And while we were writing the paper a  
new library for generic programming appeared!

On the other hand, we got quite far, and we have the feeling we can  
write quite a nice paper about the subject. To mention something  
recent: Patrik Jansson performed some time-measurements for the  
different libraries. The very limited tests (form which you cannot  
draw any conclusions without more evidence, I think) show that the  
fastest approach is around 8 times faster than the slowest approach!  
So we will try to keep up the momentum, and submit a paper to POPL.  
It has to take a bit broader perspective, but we think that that  
should be possible.

If you're interested in participating let me know, then I can give  
you access to the paper repository. The test code can be obtained  
from the darcs repository.

Al the best ,

Johan