Re: Int vs Integer

[Jon . Fairbairn]

On 13 Sep, Simon Marlow wrote:

> The common case of applying a dyadic operation to small Integers would
> then be pretty close in performance to that of Int (a couple of
> indirect jumps, and a test/branch for the overflow detection, to be
> precise).

Now that's more like what I had in mind. Isn't it also possible to
reduce the number of checks for sequences of operations?

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