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Look into ways of writing an efficient `divvy`.

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reading the linked divvy documentation in split and the relevant Data.Sequence APIs. Determine whether an efficient equivalent is feasible and what behavior it must preserve; the issue does not name a file, test, or specific completion criteria.

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Description

Seq

There is a function divvy in split. David @treeowl thinks that we can replicate it in Data.Sequence in an efficient way. I am going to look into it.

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Haskell
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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