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!
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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.
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These are the usual sizes integers and floating point numbers in C when compiled for x64.