On 11/10/2011 4:25 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Walter Bright"<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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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.
:-)
