Ross
Its inefficient to use a byte in a 32 bit processor as it may have to shift it about to evaluate it. Its really academic in these days of megabyte memory to be concerned with 1 vs 4 bytes
Neven MacEwan (B.E. E&E) Ph. 09 621 0001 Mob. 0274 749062
Ross Levis wrote:
I've tended to use ShortInt and SmallInt rather than Integer to not waste memory when values are never going to exceed their maximum, but I read somewhere that Integer should be used when possible for speed purposes.
I've found it slightly useful when reading the source to know that a particular variable doesn't ever exceed 127 or 32767.
What sort of speed differences are we talking about? Is it worth doing a global find/replace?
Cheers,
Ross Levis.
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