On Jun 2, 2013, at 23:58 , Carter Schonwald <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, as Dan says, theres the safeint library and the Integer type. > > If the Int type had either of these semantics by default, many many > performance sensitive libraries would suddenly have substantially less > compelling performance. Every single operation that was branchless before > would have a branch *every* operation..... this would be BAD. I'd like to see actual data, measurements of actual wall-time impact on real code on modern hardware, not assumptions. Tommy _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
