Bartosz about Chapel

[Walter Bright]

On 11/10/2011 4:25 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.
>>
>
> FWIW, I read that Chapel also has just plain "int" by itself which is 32
> bits.

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