[Haskell-beginners] Integer performance of GHC

[Sebastián E. Peyrott]

I meant fixed precision integers (such as Int). Sorry I wasn't clear about that.

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
<allbery at ece.cmu.edu> wrote:
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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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