From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <200003140942.KAA19653@mars.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: Fastest integer type
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:42:06 +0100 (MET)
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Eli said:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > 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.

I'm not sure, but the type is called something like FASTEST8_INT
(don't remember exactly), so I think it's for arithmetic operations.


U2, October,

							MartinS