Re: Why do we put GMP allocations on GHC heaps?

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:26:53 -0400, Edward Kmett writes:

Not suggesting we actually switch, but there is one strong 'why': You can't link Haskell code with any library that uses GMP internally internally without switching to using integer-simple. I've been trying with very limited success to get good MPFR bindings for Haskell for ~3 years now as a result.

Have you tried going the other-way around? Modifying GMP+MPFR just a little bit to ignore the mem_set_functions that are called by GHC and force them to use malloc. Then writing a wrapper for this patched GMP+MPFR. Gergely