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

[Edward Kmett]

Of course, in this particular case, worrying about the overhead of
manipulating an Integer when you are in the process of jumping through the
hoops to put your thread to *sleep* is somewhat silly. ;)

In general though, using Ints by default is a reasonable performance
compromise.

-Edward

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Daniel Fischer <
daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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