Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 09:48:28 04/18/00
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On April 18, 2000 at 12:45:36, John Coffey wrote: >I am writting a data structure that I have to copy with every new node. I was >planning on using 16 bytes, but could maybe get it down to 8 using short >integers. I am wondering if short integers (16 bits) can be accessed any faster >than 32 bit integers or if they are actually slower. Also will the difference They're actually slower. >between copying 8 bytes and 16 bytes per node make any difference in >terms of my overall speed? I doubt it. That's just 2 extra instructions, moving data around in cache. -Tom
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