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anonymfus on Jan 10, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C

> You're not worrying about how many registers your CPU has

But you need to worry about size of registers. How many modern languages have basic data types without strictly defined sizes?

caf on Jan 11, 2013 [–]

The C basic data types have minimum defined ranges, with the actual ranges being available as compile-time constants, and that's really all you need in almost all cases.

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