Re: Proposal: Export Data.Word.Word from Prelude

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 02:00:53PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:

The problem is that now you cannot express "the largest fixed-sized, unsigned int that can be handled efficiently". Word64 is terribly slow on 32-bit machines. 

And, in this way, the Word type is consistent with the Int type. Greetings, Daniel