casting int to uint and vice versa - performance
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 3 13:44:42 PST 2010
On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:34:51 -0500, Michal Minich
<michal.minich at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is performance overhead for casting value of type int to uint and in
> the opposite direction. What happen when I cast int to int or uint to
> uint
Nothing, there is no performance, type is strictly a compile-time concept.
> (for the simplicity in generic code). I suppose there is no difference,
> and it is in fact no-op for processor - it depends only on
> interpretation. Only when making other operations compiler may generate
> different instruction when he considers some value of either of types. Am
> I right?
Not sure what you mean by that last part...
-Steve
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