Using Int32 or what you need

Question

If you use Int32 in those places where you know that the value will not be higher than 32,767?

I would like to keep the memory down, hoever, using casts everywhere, just to perform simple arithmetic becomes annoying.

short a = 1;

short result = a + 1; // Error

short result = (short)(a + 1); // works but looks ugly when does lots of times

What would be better for overall application performance?

Answer 1

If you create large arrays, then it can save a significant part of memory for using narrower types (fewer bytes), since the size of the array will be "type width" * "number of elements" + "overhead" ,.

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Answer 2

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Answer 4

If you do not create 100 thousand participants, then saving the space of several bytes here and there will not make any difference on any modern machine. I think that there is a principle of premature optimization. It may make you feel better, but you are not getting any of this. IMO - only optimizes memory usage, if in fact you are using a lot of memory.