Ameer Armaly Wrote:
> Maybe we just ought to make int whatever type is fastest, and call the current int something different, maybe dword?

So int would mean 8 bit integers?
I'm joking but for some operation 8 bit int *are* 'fastest' than 32 bit int, because they use less cache, memory..

Anything else that intX, uintX is necessarily arbitrary (and even intX is not that simple: some DSP have 24bit integers..), so I'm not sure that it's quite useful to spend too much time on that topic.

renoX

"renoX" <renosky@free.fr> wrote in message news:fqj8i1$1m01$1@digitalmars.com...
> Ameer Armaly Wrote:
>> Maybe we just ought to make int
>> whatever type is fastest, and call the current int something different,
>> maybe dword?
>
> So int would mean 8 bit integers?
> I'm joking but for some operation 8 bit int *are* 'fastest' than 32 bit
> int, because they use less cache, memory..
>
> Anything else that intX, uintX is necessarily arbitrary (and even intX is not that simple: some DSP have 24bit integers..), so I'm not sure that it's quite useful to spend too much time on that topic.
>
I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier: auto. If you want optimal int types, isn't that part of the  rationale behind type inference?
> renoX
>
> 

"Ameer Armaly" <ameer.armaly@furman.edu> wrote in news:fqjl0e$2mi4$1@digitalmars.com:

> I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier: auto. If you want optimal int types, isn't that part of the  rationale behind type inference?

I assume you're proposing a change in the way auto works.  Currently for:

    auto x = 5 < 7;

x has type bool.

"JMNorris" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:fqonmv$25gh$1@digitalmars.com...
> "Ameer Armaly" <ameer.armaly@furman.edu> wrote in news:fqjl0e$2mi4$1@digitalmars.com:
>
>> I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier: auto. If you want optimal int types, isn't that part of the  rationale behind type inference?
>
> I assume you're proposing a change in the way auto works.  Currently for:
>
>    auto x = 5 < 7;
>
> x has type bool.
Not really. Suppose you're on a 64-bit machine.
auto x = 5;
should yield a long, where as on a 32-bit machine it should yield an int
It's not perfect by any stretch, but it's easier given the current
circumstances.