On 11/07/2018 14:01, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>  writes:
>> With oodles (Soon to be tera-oodles?) of RAM available
>> on the RPi3, and in future releases likely to be even more,
>> is there any point to continuing to cater for bytes, halfwords
>> and words, when everything, including CHAR, can be a 64 bit
>> quantity?
>
> Yes, performance.
>

Not really an issue, for, if you're chasing execution time on
a 1GHz processor, then get yourself a 2GHz processor.

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