Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Float instance of Data.Bits

2010/7/9 Ertugrul Soeylemez :

Sam Martin wrote: Nobody would really need the operations (we have integer types and UArray Int Bool for bit manipulation), and they would most likely be very slow.

They won't be slow using SSE2 or something. I can see where they could be beneficial. But I agree that those operations have semantics not compatible with Data.Bits operations.