Re: standard representations

[Nick Ing-Simmons]

Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>At 01:05 PM 12/29/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> >I'm reasonably certain that all platforms that perl will ultimately run on
>> >can muster hardware support for 16-bit integers.
>>
>>Hmm, most modern RISCs are very bad at C-like 16-bit arithmetic - they have
>>a tendency to widen to 32-bits.
>
>That's fine. I was thinking of smaller processors that might be used in 
>embedded apps and such. (I'm also not sure what's the most efficient 
>integer representation on things like the ARM microprocessors are)

ARM7/ARM9 are both 32-bit
MIPS has both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.
DSPs are more messy.

It is micro-controllers that you have to worry about 

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Nick Ing-Simmons