Bignums in Haskell

[Ketil Malde]

Marco Morazan <morazanm at gmail.com> writes:

> Do any of you have insight into why GHC uses GMP as opposed to another
> library for arbitrary precision numbers? 

Did you have any particular other library in mind?  I'm not too
well-versed in this, but I think GMP is fairly efficient, well tested
and portable.  So why not?

> Also, why would bignums not be directly implemented for the GHC or
> other implementations of Haskell?

I guess it shouldn't be too hard, but again, when somebody else
already has done the work... 

-k
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