Re: [Haskell-cafe] memorize function with number parameterized types in GHC

It's all on these two functions. Three most frequently used operations of Num (ModP x) are (+) (-) (*)，each of them will at least call p2num once(to get the modulus), in addition multiplication will call montgKeys. usual implementation do both in constant time: p2num is written as number literal with type "Integral a=>a", so a reasonable implementation should handle these two function in constant time(in amortized time, of course). On Nov 7, 2011 2:27 PM, "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" wrote:

On 7 November 2011 16:54, Bin Jin wrote:

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The actual time to calculate p2num and montgKeys are both O(log P). What I'm looking is a constant time lookup.

Are these two functions CPU bottlenecks as revealed by profiling? If not, then you're probably over-optimising.

Note that if O(1) lookup is really required, then that implies you use a static array, which requires you to pre-populate such an array with all possible values.

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