[Haskell-cafe] Re: Float instance of Data.Bits

[Serguey Zefirov]

2010/7/9 Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de>:
> Sam Martin <sam.martin at geomerics.com> wrote:
> Nobody would really need the operations (we have integer types and
> UArray Int Bool for bit manipulation), and they would most likely be
> very slow.

They won't be slow using SSE2 or something. I can see where they could
be beneficial.

But I agree that those operations have semantics not compatible with
Data.Bits operations.