renamed GMP symbols in GHC

[Brandon Allbery]

2012/1/4 Michal Konečný <mikkonecny at googlemail.com>

> On Wednesday 04 January 2012 12:21:13 Simon Marlow wrote:
> > GMP is inherently broken because it
> > has global state, so if you want two use it from two clients in the same
> > program, you need two copies of it.
>
> If this could be fixed that would be fantastic.  Nevertheless, I am
> currently
> unaware of how hard this might be to persue, technically or politically.
> (My gut feeling is that it is not straightforward.)
>

My understanding is that they rejected the idea of moving away from global
state for performance reasons, and are not inclined to reconsider.

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