John Launchbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked recently about the Int performance vs Integer one. In my experience with ghc-2.10 Int was 4-5 times faster than Integer on the tasks with large amount of integer arithmetic. Some Haskell, Hugs implementors confirm that this is not an occasion. Therefore, i often set Integral i => i instead of clear Integer. For the compiler is expected to specialize this to Int or to Integer depending on what is needed in the task described in `main'. Only ** Int has to break-report on overflow ** - so the user would know when to set :: Integer rather than Int for the next compile-run. ------------------ Sergey Mechveliani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
