Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precision arithmetic library

Isaac Dupree wrote:

Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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Another possibility that occured to me recently, is to switch Integer to a simpler (perhaps even pure-Haskell) representation, and provide (core? extra? Hackage?) a hsgmp package. If you have big numbers, switching is easy:

import Prelude hiding(Integer) import Data.Integer.GMP type Integer = MPZ

except that

you also need to add "default (Integer, Double)" or similar. and Int is rather machine-dependent and "could" be implemented in Haskell, too. I definitely don't want programs using Int instead of Integer just because of Int being more standard and consistent. Isaac