Re: number bases

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <381D4C88.B5E8BBE7@interact.net.au>,
  G <Dizzy@interact.net.au> wrote:
> If someone decides to represent all or the majority of integers in a
> program unit with base 2
> or
> 16
> - does this in any way optimise the code.  Which is to say - does it
> take less space in memory and is it more efficient (does it run
faster)
> to represent integers (floats, whatever) in a form closer to the
machine
> architecture/structure (i.e. binary) ?

I'm not sure what you are asking here. If you mean does
   Fred : constant Integer := 2#1011#;
take less space or time at runtime than
   Fred : constant Integer := 11;

the answer is no. They are both translated into the exact same thing at
compile time. This is the same answer you'd get if you were asking the
same question about a C or Java compiler.

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