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Subject: Off-topic: programming rant: The int type 'ought to be' fast...

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 21:12:27 06/16/00

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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).
>
>Eugene

Backwards compatibility for _broken_code_ could have been achieved with a switch
to force "int" to be 32 bits -- a switch that is _off_ by default.

Dave



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