[GHC] #1434: Slow conversion from Double to Int

[GHC]

#1434: Slow conversion from Double to Int
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    Reporter:  ghc@…                      |        Owner:                         
        Type:  task                       |       Status:  new                    
    Priority:  normal                     |    Milestone:  6.12 branch            
   Component:  libraries/base             |      Version:  6.4.1                  
    Keywords:  rules                      |   Difficulty:  Unknown                
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple           |     Testcase:                         
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple           |      Failure:  Runtime performance bug
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Comment(by simonpj):

 I believe that's all it is.  See the comment from Don Stewart 23 months
 ago, in this ticket.  It would be great if you could sort this out, and
 perhaps look for other similar cases in the base library.

 There is a collection of tiresome arithmetic-related bugs waiting for a
 generous person to fix them:
 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/SLPJ-
 Tickets#Tiresomearithmeticthings.

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