Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:25:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> The standard says you should provide types that are the fastest on the
> platform (the definition of fastest is up to the platform) for integer
> types that are at least 8, 16, 32 and 64 bits. I know that ints (32
> bits) are faster than shorts (16 bits) in DJGPP, right?

Yes.

> Are ints (32 bits) faster than chars (8 bits)?

In what context?  If a char is used as an integral type (to count or to 
loop), I think there's no difference.