Re: standard representations

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:05 PM 12/29/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >I'm reasonably certain that all platforms that perl will ultimately run on
> >can muster hardware support for 16-bit integers.
>
>Hmm, most modern RISCs are very bad at C-like 16-bit arithmetic - they have
>a tendency to widen to 32-bits.

That's fine. I was thinking of smaller processors that might be used in 
embedded apps and such. (I'm also not sure what's the most efficient 
integer representation on things like the ARM microprocessors are)


                                        Dan

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