[Haskell-cafe] Directed rounding in haskell ?

[Dominik Peteler]

Thank you for the explanation.
Apparently there is no package on hackage (yet).
(At least the link on the github page is dead)
When is it going to be released ?

Regards

Dominik



On Fri 2014-04-11 13:03, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> On 11/04/14 12:16, Dominik Peteler wrote:
> >On Thu 2014-04-10 16:15, Alp Mestanogullari wrote:
> >>Maybe these packages could be relevant/useful:
> >>- https://github.com/ekmett/rounded
> >
> >Very interesting, thank you.
> >How does it compare to hmpfr[1] ?
> >
> >[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hmpfr
> 
> 'hmpfr' doesn't work safely (random crashes occur) unless you re-compile a
> custom ghc without 'integer-gmp', and the alternative 'integer-simple' is
> very slow in comparison.
> 
> 'rounded' works around the problem (GHC's GC moving GMP things behind MPFR's
> back) but requires a patched libmpfr (which it bundles), though it is still
> not quite ready for general use (a few remaining issues to resolve afaik).
> 
> 
> Claude
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