On Friday, 24 April 2026 at 21:00:52 UTC, Meta wrote:
The arguments from that section are:
- 32-bit integer operations are often faster than smaller
integer types for single variables on modern architectures.
I'm not an expert in modern CPU architecture, but I'm extremely
skeptical of this claim. I doubt the difference is even
noticeable with modern compiler optimization techniques.
Even without optimization: nothing prevents the compiler from
calculating in the machine-words size, but the result should be
truncated to the the largest of the operands sizes.
What if you want to port the C code to D so you can refactor
and develop it using D features?
Then you should take the (more sane) rules of D into account.
I think if you plan to develop the code further, you should be
well aware of where strange C edge-cases are used and fix this.
