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Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2007 20:09 schrieb Derek Elkins:
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> >
> > That fits with my experience writing low level numeric code -- Integer
> > can be a killer.
>
> Inline machine operations v. out-of-line calls to an arbitrary precision
> integer C library: there shouldn't be any surprise here.
Obviously. However, what if 32 bit integers aren't sufficient?
What perpetually puzzles me is that in C long long int has very good
performance, *much* faster than gmp, in Haskell, on my computer, Int64 is
hardly faster than Integer.
So I stick to Integer mostly, it may be slow but it's correct.
Cheers,
Daniel
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