Stop using "Int" for microsecond delays in "base"

[Daniel Fischer]

On Wednesday 30 March 2011 20:47:37, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Can’t Integer be implemented in a more efficient way that it’s done
> currently?

Theoretically, sure. Practically, everything above a minor speedup would be 
very hard, I think.
And, as Johan mentioned, Integers can't be unpacked, I don't see how that 
could be achieved, so for IntMap and the like, performance would be 
drastically worse even if Integer manipulation itself got significantly 
faster.