On 15 October 2004 10:25, Axel Simon wrote:

for Simon M: conceptually it would be nicer if GHC uses it's private version of GMP.

Yes. This has been discussed on the GHC User's list (recently I believe). Ideally we'd like to replace GMP with something else.

Alternatively, GHC could just use malloc for allocating memory and a finalizer each time an Integer goes out of scope. Would that be too slow?

Yes, that would be too slow.

Cheers, Simon