Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 19:27:27 12/02/98
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On December 02, 1998 at 14:30:59, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >You're right, if other people are running faster with chars, then the statement >I made was wrong. > >I tested this with my own program, and moving from chars to ints for a few >critical arrays sped up the program by more than 5%. Maybe I'm the exception to >the rule. Could be, that's data too. Another argument for trying it. I think it is possible that either could be better in specific situations. The chars are smaller which may have some influence on cache behavior, and the ints are bite-sized as far as the processor is concerned, so it doesn't have to mess around with clearing the top-most bits. bruce
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