title: Are "char" and "small int" slower than "int"?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5069489/performance-of-built-in-types-char-vs-short-vs-int-vs-float-vs-double">Performance of built-in types : char vs short vs int vs. float vs. double</a>  </p>
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  <p>Hi. Assume, that you have <strong>32-bit</strong> processor. Are 8-bit <code>char</code> and 16-bit <code>short int</code> types slower than native 32-bit <code>int</code>?
  What about using 64-bit <code>long long int</code>?</p>
  
  <p>Are this datatypes supported by hardware by default, or they are all transformed into 32-bit data anyway, by using additional instructions?</p>
  
  <p>In case, that I have to store a small amount of chars, isn't it faster to store them as ints?</p>