Re: [DUG] ShortInt, SmallInt

[Ross Levis]

Ok, what about a Char type.  Would this also need to be moved around in the 
CPU.  It's basically single byte ordinal type, so I presume this would be 
slow as well, and get slower as we get more higher bit processing CPU's. 
64-bit will be common soon so ideally the minimum variable size should be 8 
bytes.  That's 8 times memory wastage.  But as you say, it's probably not 
worth the worry unless there are several thousand Byte variables required.

Cheers,
Ross.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neven MacEwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [DUG] ShortInt, SmallInt


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
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