Proposal: Add the unordered-containers package and the hashable package to the Haskell Platform

[Heinrich Apfelmus]

Johan Tibell wrote:
> 
> The problem is that if the secure hashing makes HashMap as slow as Map,
> there's no point in having the former in the first place, as it only exists
> to provide speed.

Actually, I have a use case (reactive-banana) where I need HashMap as a 
hash table and cannot use Map. The reason is that my keys are 
StableNames which can be hashed but do not have an Ord instance. In 
other words, if I wanted to use Map, I would have to implement a hash 
table on top of it.


Best regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus

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