There can also be some speed advantages if you can exploit vectorised SIMD operations, see for example https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/computing-delacorte-numbers-with-julia
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 21:38:31 UTC+1, Boris Kheyfets wrote: > > Thanks. > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Ivar Nesje <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> If you store millions of them, you can use only 1/8 of the space, and get >> better memory efficiency. >> >> onsdag 25. mars 2015 21.11.05 UTC+1 skrev Boris Kheyfets følgende: >>> >>> The question says it all. I wonder if on would get any benefits of >>> keeping small things in small containers: Uint8 instead of Int64 on x64 OS? >>> >> >
