On Jun 20, 2008, at 09:34, Max Berger wrote:
The JVM converts all shorts to ints before doing any arithmetic, so
shorts are actually a little bit slower than ints.
As for the size: If you have primitive values, an int takes up 4 byte,
whereas a short takes 2 bytes (+java overhead), meaning
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Andreas,
The JVM converts all shorts to ints before doing any arithmetic, so
shorts are actually a little bit slower than ints.
As for the size: If you have primitive values, an int takes up 4 byte,
whereas a short takes 2 bytes (+java overhead),
