In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ft.com>, "Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The .NET CLR lifts the restriction by specialising code, so that it can > adapt to whether it is moving Int# or Double# values around. In > Haskell, though, it's not possible to statically generate all the > instances you need, so you'd need run-time code generation to do this. > > It's a real restriction, and sometimes very tiresome, but I'm not > planning to fix it soon, unless I have a brilliant idea for how to do it > easily. So you don't think having a different kind for each kind of storage (e.g. #4 for 4-byte values, etc.) would help you here? -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
