[MLton] MLton rules! (was: filedes = int)

[skaller]

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On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 10:22 -0500, Henry Cejtin wrote:
> Python big ints (longs) are built-in, but slow as a dog.  Similarly, OCam=
l's
> are slow.  Both Python and OCaml provide access to libgmp precisely becau=
se
> it is so much faster.  It really makes a huge difference if you care abou=
t
> the speed of such calculations, especially if the numbers are very large
> (thousands of digits).

Yes, but that is irrelevant, surely: the compiler doesn't need to do
any calculations fast. It is probably using gmp for the same
reason Felix uses the Ocaml big int package .. platform
independent representation of (usually small) integers.

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John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>


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