From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!lee%usc-cse@Usc-Ecl
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: big ptrs, small ints in C
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4904
Posted: Sat Dec 18 02:16:15 1982
Received: Fri Dec 24 02:47:37 1982

Date:         15 Dec 1982 9:58-PST
The current situation with the M68000 is tempting people to achieve
speed optimization by having the default int size be 16 bits even
though addresses and registers on the M68000 are 32 bits wide.  While
one can save perhaps 10% today with this decision, in a remarkably
short time, chip processors will have real 32-bit behavior and this
choice will appear archaic.  The long range benefits from the uniformity
of behavior (and storage usage) over the large class of 32-bit
processors will far outstrip the short term performance improvements.
						-- Lee