Re: Int vs Integer

[Will Partain]

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> .... As far as I know, none of the existing implementations
> takes the speed of Integer seriously (ghc certainly doesn't), ...

The GHC implementation has always been a thin wrapper on top
of the GMP (GNU multi-precision arithmetic) library.  So,
while we may not have taken Integer performance too
seriously, we made a point of hanging around with people who
did.  (Hey, Lennart made much the same choice, and he's not
one to give away speed for nothing :-)

Will (ex-GHC person)