Dear Daniel Thank for your proposals to improve Haskell's numerics. We have long needed someone who was willing to devote some time and attention to this area. Can I interest you in a number of open tickets? #4101: constant folding for (**) #3676: realToFrac conversions #3744: comparisons against minBound and maxBound are not optimised away #3065: quot is sub-optimal #2269: Word type to Double or Float conversions #2271: floor, ceiling, round :: Double -> Int are awesomely slow #1434: slow conversion Double to Int All are accessible as http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4101, etc. All need love. Thanks Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf | Of Daniel Fischer | Sent: 25 September 2010 01:34 | To: libraries@haskell.org | Subject: Proposal: Better power for Rational | | Proposal: A better implementation of powers for Rational | | Discussion period: Three weeks, until 16^th^ October 2010 (ICFP again)