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Subject: Re: [OT programming rant] The int type 'ought to be' fast...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:53:02 06/15/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 00:46:44, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Unfortunately, backward compatibility sometimes is more important than
>performance/reliability/(you name it).

This is cowtowing to broken code (that assumes integers/longs whatever have a
certain number of bits in them).

Too many decisions like that for me, but I guess I should have gone to committee
meetings and pitched a cross-eyed hissy-fit if I wanted it otherwise strongly
enough.



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