From: Tom Burgess <Tom_Burgess AT bc DOT sympatico DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: ints vs. shorts
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 08:33:48 -0700
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Leath Muller wrote:
> 
> > I have heard that there is a performance difference between shorts
> > and ints.  If anyone could explain when and how much this matters,
> > I would be very grateful.  I'm just wondering whether to use ints
> > for everything, shorts for everything, or a mix.
> 
> Use int's - shorts have a 1 cycle stall on the pentium...
> 
> Leathal.

In addition, the V-pipe gets shut down, thus potentially costing
another cycle. (an instruction that could have executed in parallel
in the V-pipe is prevented from doing so). I would say use ints
by default and shorts only when required by external interfaces or
if the reduction in data space would help with on-chip (8K typ.) data
cache utilization.

	regards, tom