Re: Patch: Promoting characters to 31 bits (for discussion)
SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org> writes:
O.K. Since size matters to you, how about another alternative? What
would/could we gain or lose by using long long as EMACS_INTs on 32 bit
architectures?
1. Portability. Presumably gcc version < 2.8 generates awfull code for
long long. Older Solaris compilers don't support it.
2. Speed. Even on a 64-bit processor a 64-bit XEmacs is much slower
than a 32-bit one.
3. Yet another versioning headache. I would want 32-bit + UCS4.
Jan