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- Subject: Re: Question about 4.1 optimization
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:12:06 -0300
> > Yes. Maybe we will give up 16 bit instructions. (Or, to avoid longs, maybe
> > an instruction can be used as a record with two ints, instead of a long).
>
> I may be misunderstanding you, but why do you mix talk of word sizes and C
> types like this? Not using 16-bit instructions doesn't imply using longs,
> [...]
Sorry about the noise. I meant "to avoid longs in machines where ints have
only 16 bits...".
-- Roberto
