Why are SINGLE variables faster than INTEGER variables ?

[hsiangch_ong]

Also when using Integer's the NATIVE REGISTER SIZE is going to be fastest.

i think the cpu is garbage.  if it cannot do calculations involving smaller integers than its general purpose register size.  faster than floating point.  if the cpu is 64-bit.  which is way faster than intel 486dx for example.

it could be understood with 16-bit.  especially how intel tried to get more profits.  by just leaving out fpu.  or doing other stupid things before it invented celeron.  and going even further such as denormalizing problems we still have to deal with now on "x86" architecture.

we're not going to have 128-bit in the near future.  imagine having to shuffle 16 bytes at a time?  but the programmer needs only two bytes at a time?  if that's slower than figuring out a transcedental number to 100 digits.  then it simply means poor design.  sadly poor design has become price leader in many cases.  on computers being considered e-waste after.  ummm, five years after manufacture.  and even less time in the future.

so much for "register int" overused in a lot of legacy c code.  it won't be necessary any longer.  if declaring something as "long double" is faster instead.

this is just my opinion.