Re: Bignums in Haskell

Marco Morazan writes:

Do any of you have insight into why GHC uses GMP as opposed to another library for arbitrary precision numbers?

Did you have any particular other library in mind? I'm not too well-versed in this, but I think GMP is fairly efficient, well tested and portable. So why not?

Also, why would bignums not be directly implemented for the GHC or other implementations of Haskell?

I guess it shouldn't be too hard, but again, when somebody else already has done the work... -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants