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Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
> Most machines have one data type that is fastest to operate on,
> normally the one that corresponds to the native wordsize.  On the 386,
> it's the 32-bit int.  The 16-bit short, on the other hand, requires a
> special instruction prefix to operate on, and each instruction
> requires one more cycle than the corresponding 32-bit instruction.
> Thus the code generated for `i++' will be both smaller and faster if
> `i' is an int rather than a short.
>

So, would it better for me to store all of my one's and zero's in the
'int' type to speed up operations, since all I'm doing is accessing the
arrays (I'm not changing anything in them), or should I just keep it in
the 'char' data type?  See, the reason for the hex question was...

If I store all the info in hex form in the 'char' type, like:
0xa4, 0x3c, 0xf2, 0x7d, then all I have to do to change it to 'int' is
combine them all into one hex unit (right?):
0xa43cf27d

-David C.