On 2/5/2018 4:08 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I think the CPU has to do extra work to throw away that high bit, no?
So much of software relies on C integer semantics that CPU vendors have optimized their performance for them, so no.
Except for 16 bit shorts. Shorts will exact a penalty :-) and so shorts should only be used for data packing purposes.
