From:	sime AT fly DOT cc DOT fer DOT hr (S. Mikecin)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Int or short int ?
Date:	9 Dec 1996 10:59:06 GMT
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Erik Max Francis (max AT alcyone DOT com) wrote:
: luca wrote:

: > Hi,
: > what is faster ?
: > int or short int ?

: In general, for any compiler, the native word size that is used by the
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^
: processor is going to be faster than any other combination; generally this
: is called an int in a C compiler for that architecture.  For DJGPP the int
: is 32 bits.

Not true... Here are some examples:

Microsoft FORTRAN 5.x has default INTEGER as INTEGER*4 and it is a 16-bit
compiler! (INTEGER*2 is faster).
All compilers I have seen for the 8-bit computers have sizeof(int)==2. 1
byte chars are faster. Actually some of them for that reason have shorts of
1 byte in size.

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