Re: Using int32_t instead of IV for code

[Bart Lateur]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:27:27 +0300 [ooh I'm far behind on these lists],
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

>I always see this claim ("why would you use 64 bits unless you really
>need them big, they must be such a waste") being bandied around, without
>much hard numbers to support the claims.

>Unless you are thinking of huge and/or multidimensional arrays
>of tightly packed integers, I don't think you should care.

We're talking bytecode. That will indeed be a case of "huge arrays of
tightly packed integers".

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        Bart.