Bignums in Haskell

Marco Morazan morazanm at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 07:37:08 EDT 2005


Hello all,

Do any of you have insight into why GHC uses GMP as opposed to another
library for arbitrary precision numbers? Also, why would bignums not
be directly implemented for the GHC or other implementations of
Haskell?

Best wishes,

Marco


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