Re: Straw Poll (name)

1998-09-10 Thread Fergus Henderson
On 08-Sep-1998, Emery Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally lean towards Haskell 98 myself, but just for grins (and to hopefully offload this topic from the list): = STRAW POLL Send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "Straw Poll". Results will be tabulated and announced on

Int vs Integer. Reply

1998-09-10 Thread S.D.Mechveliani
John Launchbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked recently about the Int performance vs Integer one. In my experience with ghc-2.10 Int was 4-5 times faster than Integer on the tasks with large amount of integer arithmetic. Some Haskell, Hugs implementors confirm that this is not an occasion.

MISC'99: Final Call for Papers

1998-09-10 Thread MISC 99
MISC'99 Workshop on Applications of Interval Analysis to Systems and Control with special emphasis on recent advances in Modal Interval Analysis February 24-26, 1999, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain Dear colleague, Remember that the deadline for full paper submissions is SEPTEMBER 30,

Re: Int vs Integer

1998-09-10 Thread Paul Hudak
Standard Haskell is supposed to be a conservative bugfix of 1.4, IMHO, the use of Int is a BUG, and we should fix it in Standard Haskell, for all of the reasons that Jon mentions. Haven't we had this discussion (umpteen times) before?? I thought that we had already agreed to make this change

Re: Int vs Integer

1998-09-10 Thread Jon . Fairbairn
On 10 Sep, Will Partain wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know, none of the existing implementations takes the speed of Integer seriously (ghc certainly doesn't), ... The GHC implementation has always been a thin wrapper on top of the GMP (GNU multi-precision arithmetic)

Re: Int vs Integer

1998-09-10 Thread Will Partain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As far as I know, none of the existing implementations takes the speed of Integer seriously (ghc certainly doesn't), ... The GHC implementation has always been a thin wrapper on top of the GMP (GNU multi-precision arithmetic) library. So, while we may not have