Hello Peter, Friday, August 11, 2006, 4:00:40 AM, you wrote:
> OpenSSL's BN library is primarily tuned to support cryptography, > particularly the generation of very large primes for public key > cryptosystems. It is possible to separate the BN library out (I am > having some success there already). It is also possible to use the > library separately from Haskell using ForeignPtr; essentially doing > everything through Haskell's FFI. I have honestly not benchmarked a > FFI-ForeignPtr interface against the current internal-GMP > implementation, partly because the overhead required to use > ForeignPtr and the availability of garbage-collected memory for GMP > indicate that an internal GHC Bignum library would clearly be > faster. why you say that ForeignPtr is slow? afaik, malloc/free is slow, but starting from ghc 6.6 speed of _using_ ForeignPtr is the same as for Ptr -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
