Re: 64 bit data types

Thanks for starting this thread.  For any new names, I hope
that we can invent names that are self-descriptive.


And put them into the compiler :p

All that I can guess about the old ShortInt is that it is
smaller than the LongInt, and the SmallInt is larger than
the TinyInt and smaller than the BigInt.  I have no idea
if ShortInt is larger or smaller than SmallInt nor if
LongInt is larger or smaller than BigInt, unless I look
them up.
In my code, I usually try to document the size of these
more nebulous things with comments.


And in the future HugeInt, SpaceInt and InfiniteInt. :D
CodeInsight is useful to get ordinal sizes.

Further, in the past, I have worked with machines
where the "words" were 12 (CDC peripheral processors),
16, 32 (IBM), 48 (DataCraft), and 60-bits (CDC-6400),
so I do not consider "word" very descriptive.  I would
not be surprised if the next "native" size on the PC
after 64-bits was 96 rather than the power-of-two-
progression value 128.

I use these processor too, including 4 bit for lightweight embedded devices. There should major changes in processor architectures during the next ten years, that's difficult to make previsions.

--
Florent Ouchet
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