[MLton] Packing and IntInf

Henry Cejtin henry@sourcelight.com
Wed, 19 May 2004 13:19:38 -0500


Gmp  has a pretty huge amount of fancy stuff in it that, I would guess, would
be quite hard to do efficiently in SML.  Just the transition from  school-boy
multiplication  to  Karatsuba  to  FFT  is  very tricky.  Also there are some
assembler routines that speed things up.  Although the interface is certainly
not  optimal  (GCD  being particularly bad), I would say sticking with GMP is
still way worth it.