Re: NO NUMBERS! (or even SHORT INTS!)

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From: Michael Pizolato
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:33

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In article <1992Sep28.003421.1246@RedBrick.COM> jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
>The problem I started thinking about is WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYONE
>USE SHORT INTS IN A PROGRAM, particularly one done for a workstation-level
>machine (i.e., large memory model, etc).  I can see the need for memory
>conservation to some degree, but certainly there is no performance
>benefit on most machines today (there may even be a performance penalty

Well, there are really several reasons...

Oh, but of course you were kidding!  Never mind.

Michael

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Subject: Re: NO NUMBERS! (or even SHORT INTS!)
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