Mini-patch for cccp.c
John Carr
jfc@tiac.net
Mon Oct 6 17:13:00 GMT 1997
>> choose between char and int except for the fact that on some machines
>> memory loads and stores of individual chars may be significantly
>> slower than ints.
> And on other machines they may be faster. It's highly target dependent.
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:
SPARC signed char slower on Ultra, otherwise equal
x86 char sometimes slower, never faster
MIPS no effect
alpha char slower
PPC no effect
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