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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:01:19 06/19/00

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On June 17, 2000 at 12:33:39, Bo Persson wrote:

>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?

If the OS was written properly, a simple recompile would instantly turn it into
a 64 bit OS.
;-)

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