Bartosz about Chapel

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
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> 3. the reality that CPUs tend to have 32 as the optimal size, and 'int' 
> being a natural thing to type, it tends to be the default one types in. 
> Otherwise, how would you explain that one should use int(32) rather than 
> int(16) for routine integer use? It just seems (to me) that it would 
> encourage the use of inefficient integer types.
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FWIW, I read that Chapel also has just plain "int" by itself which is 32 
bits.