Hello p, Sunday, July 30, 2006, 7:21:07 AM, you wrote:
Leroy and even MLton uses GMP. Robert Dockins wrote a type-based library for arbitrary that can (slowly) handle big numbers (up to 10^15), see http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/typenats.html I don't
this don't have anything common with our problem of implementing efficient runtime library
know what the constraints on making such native Integer support work in GHC but my comment on the evolution of Haskell was not meant badly: native Integer support would require modifications to how Integers are handled in memory. (I would be glad to lend whatever support I could on this, but it seems like a big project.)
imho, you are wrong. current representation allows fastest operations. but anyway Haskell code will be several times slower than C one - even for GHC, much more for Haskell interpreters -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com