[Haskell-beginners] Integer performance of GHC

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/6/10 23:32 , Sebastián E. Peyrott wrote:
> Do you have any insights on this? Is it reasonable to expect Haskell
> integer performance to reach the levels of C with current
> implementations? Which are the limiting factors?

Integer, or Int?  In theory Integer should use Int when possible under the
covers, but that may not always do what you expect --- and Integer, being
arbitrary precision, will never be as fast as native Int math.

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