FFI Bindings to Libraries using GMP

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

I won't be at the hackathon I fear (and neither will Simon M) but I jotted down some notes about how to replace GMP with a Haskell library
        http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes/HaskellLibrary

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org] On
| Behalf Of Matthias Neubauer
| Sent: 11 September 2007 22:04
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org; benedikth; Peter Tanski
| Subject: Re: FFI Bindings to Libraries using GMP
|
| Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:
|
| > Peter Tanski did exactly that (he's the author of the
| > ReplacingGMPNotes above), but he's been very quiet recently.  I
| > don't know where he is up to.  Perhaps someone else would like to
| > join in?
|
| Since I live only five minutes away from this year's Hackathon venue,
| I guess it would be kind of silly to have such an event in my
| neighborhood and not go to it! :)
|
| I would enjoy working on this during the hackathon. Is there a reason
| to not start with a simple, Haskell-only implementation? And later use
| techniques known from ByteStrings and stream fusion to improve on that.
|
| -Matthias
|
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| Matthias Neubauer                                       |
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