"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:j9g65s$2g1d$1...@digitalmars.com... > > 3. the reality that CPUs tend to have 32 as the optimal size, and 'int' > being a natural thing to type, it tends to be the default one types in. > Otherwise, how would you explain that one should use int(32) rather than > int(16) for routine integer use? It just seems (to me) that it would > encourage the use of inefficient integer types. >
FWIW, I read that Chapel also has just plain "int" by itself which is 32 bits.
