Re: Making --with-wide-int the default

[David Kastrup]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:26:27 +0200
>> 
>> > What is "non-native" about 'long long int'?
>> 
>> Register lengths and opcodes.  You need two registers for every
>> operation, and several opcodes.
>
> Yes, and the compiler already implements that in the most efficient
> way possible.

And GMP makes use of that.  "The most efficient way possible" is still
less efficient than using 32bit.  Particularly regarding storage
efficiency.

-- 
David Kastrup