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Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- To: John Carr <jfc at tiac dot net>
- Subject: Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 18:31:52 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199710070008.UAA00600@jfc.>you write:
> On what relatively modern (< 5 years old) gcc hosts are chars faster
> than ints? They used to be faster on a few machines without caches,
> but now:
mn10x00 -- not that these are likely to ever host gcc.
chars can be faster on the H8 too since the H8 has better addressing
modes and bitwise manipulation of char values in memory. They're
also more likely to fit in the '8bit data areas'.
Jeff