On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:58:38AM -0700, Gregory Propf wrote:
> So what the hell is the difference between them?  Int and Integer.  They 
> aren't synonyms clearly.  What's going on?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/src/ghcbuild$ ghci
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
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 / /_\// /_/ / /  | |    GHC Interactive, version 6.7.20070612, for Haskell 98.
/ /_\\/ __  / /___| |    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
\____/\/ /_/\____/|_|    Type :? for help.

Prelude> 1000000000000 :: Integer
1000000000000
Prelude> 1000000000000 :: Int
-727379968
Prelude> 

Int is fifteen times faster, but vulnerable to overflow errors.

Stefan

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