Operator declaration

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On Friday, 24 April 2026 at 21:00:52 UTC, Meta wrote:
> The arguments from that section are:
> - 32-bit integer operations are often faster than smaller 
> integer types for single variables on modern architectures.
>
> I'm not an expert in modern CPU architecture, but I'm extremely 
> skeptical of this claim. I doubt the difference is even 
> noticeable with modern compiler optimization techniques.

Even without optimization: nothing prevents the compiler from 
calculating in the machine-words size, but the result should be 
truncated to the the largest of the operands sizes.

>> What if you want to port the C code to D so you can refactor 
>> and develop it using D features?

Then you should take the (more sane) rules of D into account.
I think if you plan to develop the code further, you should be 
well aware of where strange C edge-cases are used and fix this.