On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:40:28PM +0100, Daniel Fischer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2007 20:09 schrieb Derek Elkins: > <snip> > > > > > > That fits with my experience writing low level numeric code -- Integer > > > can be a killer. > > > > Inline machine operations v. out-of-line calls to an arbitrary precision > > integer C library: there shouldn't be any surprise here. > > Obviously. However, what if 32 bit integers aren't sufficient? > What perpetually puzzles me is that in C long long int has very good > performance, *much* faster than gmp, in Haskell, on my computer, Int64 is > hardly faster than Integer. > So I stick to Integer mostly, it may be slow but it's correct.
Int64 in Glasgow Haskell is not implemented for speed - it uses the FFI to call a number of addition/subtraction/whatever primitives in the runtime. If this is a problem for you, file a feature request on the GHC bugtracker. Stefan
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