We need to clarify if 'real' is the 'default floating point type' or not.

[Ameer Armaly]

"renoX" <renosky at free.fr> wrote in message 
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> Ameer Armaly Wrote:
>> Maybe we just ought to make int
>> whatever type is fastest, and call the current int something different,
>> maybe dword?
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> So int would mean 8 bit integers?
> I'm joking but for some operation 8 bit int *are* 'fastest' than 32 bit 
> int, because they use less cache, memory..
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> Anything else that intX, uintX is necessarily arbitrary (and even intX is 
> not that simple: some DSP have 24bit integers..), so I'm not sure that 
> it's quite useful to spend too much time on that topic.
>
I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier: auto. If you want optimal 
int types, isn't that part of the  rationale behind type inference?
> renoX
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