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		igouy on Oct 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Going Back to PHP > GHC uses GMP Exactly, so I don't understand in what sense we could say GHC is an example of languages that "do as well with their native numerical tower"? http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes

jrockway on Oct 27, 2009 [–]

It is GMP, but the programmer doesn't know that. It is simply a good implementation choice (for speed, anyway), which is what the benchmark measures.

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