[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Patch] Bool cleanup of options.c

[Tony Stuckey <stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:00:14AM +0000, Ben Webb wrote:
>       I'd be surprised[*] if char were faster than int, but it'd be 
> interesting to see this nonetheless.
> 
> [*] For example, glib uses "int" as their gboolean type, and I'm (perhaps 
>     foolishly) assuming they've looked into this kind of thing.

        That's going to be hardware dependent.
        On M68K, i386 and i486, and other older hardware, it's certainly
faster.  The 8-bit and 16-bit data quantity instructions take fewer clock
cycles to execute than the 32-bit instructions.
        On Alpha, it's certainly slower.
        On Sparc/Ultrasparc, ARM, PentiumPro/P3/P4/K6/Athlon/flavor of the
day, etc, I don't really know.
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Anthony J. Stuckey                              stuckey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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