Re: Patch for Word64

2005-11-23 Thread Matt
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Simon, Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 2:28:26 PM, you wrote: int64ToWord64# = unsafeCoerce# word64ToInt64# = unsafeCoerce# this should reduce the cost of the conversions to zero, which is a simpler way to fix the performance bug (if it works). If you

Re: Patch for Word64

2005-11-21 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Matt, Monday, November 21, 2005, 5:56:51 PM, you wrote: M I was doing some work with Word64 and noticed that it was about 3 times M slower than Int64. The reason appears to be expensive conversions from M Int64# to Word64# and vice versa. I modified the libraries to remove the M conversion