I am using LPC2138, is u32 faster than u8?

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bonmot wrote on Friday, January 05, 2007:

I need a fast for loop using i as the counter.
Do I need to define it as 4 bytes variable or 1 byte?
The counter will never go over 64.
So logically u32 is same as u8.
But which one is faster?

Thanks

Paul

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rtel wrote on Friday, January 05, 2007:

This is not really a FreeRTOS.org question - but yes.  u32 is better.