Re: [swift-dev] Question about size of Character type

2016-08-22 Thread Quinn "The Eskimo!" via swift-dev
On 21 Aug 2016, at 02:25, Chris Lattner via swift-dev wrote: > ARM64 even has a hardware feature for this, called “top byte ignored” (TBI) > which means you don’t even have to do the masking. Urgh, horrible flashbacks to the “32-bit clean” effort during the late 80s: Currently the Macint

Re: [swift-dev] Question about size of Character type

2016-08-22 Thread gian enrico conti via swift-dev
As been as old as Quinn, I got the exact SAME impression! :) > On 22 Aug 2016, at 11:03, Quinn The Eskimo! via swift-dev > wrote: > > > On 21 Aug 2016, at 02:25, Chris Lattner via swift-dev > wrote: > >> ARM64 even has a hardware feature for this, called “top byte ignored” (TBI) >> which

[swift-dev] TWISt-shout Newsletter 2016-08-22

2016-08-22 Thread Kenny Leung via swift-dev
Here is your TWISt-shout Newsletter for the week of 2016-08-15 to 2016-08-21 https://github.com/pepperdog/TWISt-shout/blob/master/2016/TWISt-shout-2016-08-22.md Enjoy! -Kenny ___ swift-dev mailing list swift-dev@swift.org https://lists.swift.org/mailm