Using short ints

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From: Frank I. Reiter
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1989 16:52

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We've recently ported a bunch of SCO Xenix 286 C code to SCO Xenix 386.  Can
someone familiar with 80386 assembler tell me whether there is any performance
benefit in using short ints (16 bits) rather than the default 32 bit ints for
things like array subscripts, loop counters etc.

Thanks in advance!
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From: frank@rsoft.UUCP (Frank I. Reiter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Using short ints
Keywords: 80386 int
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Date: 10 Jan 89 16:52:47 GMT
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