Isaac Dupree wrote:
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Another possibility that occured to me recently, is to switch Integer
to a simpler (perhaps even pure-Haskell) representation, and provide
(core? extra? Hackage?) a hsgmp package. If you have big numbers,
switching is easy:
import Prelude hiding(Integ
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Another possibility that occured to me recently, is to switch Integer
to a simpler (perhaps even pure-Haskell) representation, and provide
(core? extra? Hackage?) a hsgmp package. If you have big numbers,
switching is easy:
import Prelude hiding(Integer)
import Data.Integ
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:32:36AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | There is an interest in removing GMP, motivated partly by licensing but
> | also due to portabiltity concerns and the fact that the use of GHC's
> | memory manager in GMP prevents FFI code from using GMP safely.
> |
> | http://
| > I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start any
| > kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was
| > wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
| > runtime so that it would be possible to distribute native executables
