Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2005 15:25 schrieb robert dockins: > > Thank you for the prompt response. Do you have any insight as to why > > the GMP library is used instead of another library for arbitrary > > precision? Also, I understand that Haskell does not specify an > > implementation for bignums, but why would the developers of GHC not > > implement bignums directly instead of using an outside library? > > Unfortunately, I don't have the answers to those questions; I'm not > really a GHC hacker. I would speculate however that the reasons are > largely practical in nature: GMP already exists, is pretty dang fast, > and is fairly portable.
And it's free. :-) > Robert Dockins Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
