On Nov 14, 2007, at 21:50 , Albert Lee wrote:

dotp :: Num a => [:a:] -> [:a:] -> a

You're forcing Num a => a here, whereas the list one probably specializes to Integer. Seems like a bad way to go to me; polymorphism is expensive. (Whether it's *that* expensive, I couldn't tell you.)

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