Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Uses of "short" ? Message-ID: <649@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 02:13:16 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.649 Posted: Tue Sep 10 02:13:16 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 08:28:15 EDT References: <486@houxh.UUCP> <2761@sun.uucp> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 3 Summary: what do you want to optimize Or to put it a little differently, use 'int' to optimize access time for the variable, and 'short' to optimize space used.