Thanks, I didn't see it in the tutorials I've been reading but I'm sure it's 
there and I just missed it.

----- Original Message ----
From: Brent Yorgey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:14:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple newbie question - Int and Integer

To be more precise, Int represents a machine-sized integer value, so it is 
limited in size but doing math with Int values translates directly into math on 
the processor.  Integer can store integer values of arbitrary size, which is 
useful sometimes but is of course a lot slower, since the pieces of an Integer 
value have to be stored in some sort of list, and specialized code is used to 
do arithmetic with Integers by operating on the pieces and combining the 
results.


How have you been learning Haskell?  I'm guessing this is probably covered in 
most tutorials.

-Brent






 
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