On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Robert O'Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems to me you could quantify the performance impact of variable-width
> types. E.g. try making 'int' 32-bit on a 64-bit architecture and see how
> much it hurts. I'm suspicious they're a premature optimization.
>
> Rob

The int and uint types match the pointer size, and if they aren't the
same size the existing standard library (including things like
vectors) won't work.
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