On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:37:08AM -0400, Marco Morazan wrote: > Hello all, > > Do any of you have insight into why GHC uses GMP as opposed to another > library for arbitrary precision numbers? Also, why would bignums not > be directly implemented for the GHC or other implementations of > Haskell?
Efficient arithmetic algorithms for large numbers is a matter of mathematics. Such algorithms, and libraries, are developed by the best experts in computational mathematics. Maybe, GMP is such. Regards, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
