Re: Bignums in Haskell

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:37:08AM -0400, Marco Morazan wrote:

Hello all,

Do any of you have insight into why GHC uses GMP as opposed to another library for arbitrary precision numbers? Also, why would bignums not be directly implemented for the GHC or other implementations of Haskell?

Efficient arithmetic algorithms for large numbers is a matter of mathematics. Such algorithms, and libraries, are developed by the best experts in computational mathematics. Maybe, GMP is such. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru