Re:An update on GNU performance
by CamperBob2 on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:16AM
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The program becomes less limited as it is ported to more capable machines with bigger integers, instead of continuing to pretend that everything is a 32 bit i386.
I'm guessing you've never ported code that was written for 32-bit ints back to a 16-bit architecture.
Always better to make your type sizes crystal-clear to the reader, IMO, even if it risks using a suboptimal word size on some other platform down the line.
I'm guessing you've never ported code that was written for 32-bit ints back to a 16-bit architecture.
Always better to make your type sizes crystal-clear to the reader, IMO, even if it risks using a suboptimal word size on some other platform down the line.