[OT] The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Saturday, 5 February 2022 at 02:43:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> P.S. as a pragmatic programmer, I find very little use for 
> shorts other than saving some space in a data structure. Using 
> shorts as temporaries is a code smell.

As a pragmatic programmer with hand-coded assembly optimizations 
experience and also familiar with SIMD compiler intrinsics, using 
shorts as temporaries in C code actually works great for 
prototyping/testing the behavior of a single 16-bit lane. As a 
bonus, autovectorizers in compilers may pick up something too. 
But tons of forced type casts is the actual code smell.