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

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:33:39 06/17/00

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On June 16, 2000 at 00:53:02, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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).

Just what happens when you try to run a 32-bit OS on a 64 bit machine :-)
Which size is most natural?


>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.


Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com




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