On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Is there any speed advantage in truncating by casting via a C type
> [eg a = (int)(short) b]
> rather than  and on a bitmask
> [eg a = b & 0xFFFF]
> ?
> 
> We're going to have to do that latter to make it work on Crays anyway

Why?

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