Re: Bignums in Haskell

2005-06-21 Thread karczma
John Meacham writes: I wonder if it would be feasable to implement arbitrary precision integers in pure haskell. unboxed values would probably want to be used in some places for speed and it would be very motivating to improve ghc's optimizer. There should be no reason manually unboxed haskell c

Re: Generating unique random numbers

2005-06-14 Thread karczma
This topic should be posed to a more general forum than GHusers... Jens Fisseler answers: Is it possible to generate random numbers that are "unique" in O(1) in Haskell? Of course, I could create unique numbers by incrementing a global value, but for security reasons I need random number

Re: Emitting java bytecode?

2004-12-21 Thread karczma
Einar Karttunen writes: Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For example, some darcs users complain ... Perhaps making -keep-hc-files a bit more documented ... This could be faster and easier to implement than creating a version of the RTS running under the JVM. == More ge