I agree that bignums do not automatically equal slower (fixnum) performance. For example, see here:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jaffer/CNS/interpreter-branch Also, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler wiki has some notes on replacing GMP: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes -Ivan John Cowan <[email protected]> writes: > Nicholas Indy Ray scripsit: > >> Bignums are nice and all, but I hardly see it as a practical >> necessity. Plus if I had to choose between fix/flonums or bignums >> and slower number performance, I'd choose the prior, that is why I >> use chicken! > > Bignums don't hurt performance much unless you use them. Ratios can > hurt performance, but I'm not proposing them: / should still return a > flonum if the mathematical result is not an integer. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
