{-# LANGUAGE Trustworthy #-} {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ {-# LANGUAGE MagicHash, DeriveDataTypeable #-} #endif ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- | -- Module : Data.Unique -- Copyright : (c) The University of Glasgow 2001 -- License : BSD-style (see the file libraries/base/LICENSE) -- -- Maintainer : libraries@haskell.org -- Stability : experimental -- Portability : non-portable -- -- An abstract interface to a unique symbol generator. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module Data.Unique ( -- * Unique objects Unique, newUnique, hashUnique ) where import Prelude import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO) #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ import GHC.Base import GHC.Num import Data.Typeable import Data.IORef #endif -- | An abstract unique object. Objects of type 'Unique' may be -- compared for equality and ordering and hashed into 'Int'. newtype Unique = Unique Integer deriving (Eq,Ord #ifdef __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ ,Typeable #endif ) uniqSource :: IORef Integer uniqSource = unsafePerformIO (newIORef 0) {-# NOINLINE uniqSource #-} -- | Creates a new object of type 'Unique'. The value returned will -- not compare equal to any other value of type 'Unique' returned by -- previous calls to 'newUnique'. There is no limit on the number of -- times 'newUnique' may be called. newUnique :: IO Unique newUnique = do r <- atomicModifyIORef' uniqSource $ \x -> let z = x+1 in (z,z) return (Unique r) -- SDM (18/3/2010): changed from MVar to STM. This fixes -- 1. there was no async exception protection -- 2. there was a space leak (now new value is strict) -- 3. using atomicModifyIORef would be slightly quicker, but can -- suffer from adverse scheduling issues (see #3838) -- 4. also, the STM version is faster. -- SDM (30/4/2012): changed to IORef using atomicModifyIORef. Reasons: -- 1. STM version could not be used inside unsafePerformIO, if it -- happened to be poked inside an STM transaction. -- 2. IORef version can be used with unsafeIOToSTM inside STM, -- because if the transaction retries then we just get a new -- Unique. -- 3. IORef version is very slightly faster. -- IGL (08/06/2013): changed to using atomicModifyIORef' instead. -- This feels a little safer, from the point of view of not leaking -- memory, but the resulting core is identical. -- | Hashes a 'Unique' into an 'Int'. Two 'Unique's may hash to the -- same value, although in practice this is unlikely. The 'Int' -- returned makes a good hash key. hashUnique :: Unique -> Int #if defined(__GLASGOW_HASKELL__) hashUnique (Unique i) = I# (hashInteger i) #else hashUnique (Unique u) = fromInteger (u `mod` (toInteger (maxBound :: Int) + 1)) #endif