Related to https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/8111
Why are Int32 and Float64 the default primitive types? Why not both 32, or vice versa?
Thanks!
Because Int32 occupies less space and is faster. And because you get more precision with Float64 and the speed difference / memory space for float usually doesn’t matter. But I might be wrong. I think we copied that from somewhere else too, I’m not sure.
These are the usual sizes integers and floating point numbers in C when compiled for x64.