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Re: Faster compilation speed

Am Mon, 2002-08-19 um 14.15 schrieb Nick Ing-Simmons:

> Yet another speed/space trade-off - most architecures are going to take
> significantly longer to inc/dec a bitfield than they will doing 
> an int. 

However a few (after all the overhead is not really much) extra
instructions are nothing compared to a cachemiss or even vm measures.
And bitfields can help dramatically to shrink object size especially
for a pile of boolean states and alike.
 
-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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