| 4 | | * As an optimization to our data structures, many should use unsigned instead of size_t, since on 64-bit systems this can make our objects much smaller, and there are many things that simply can’t go past 2^32 |
| 5 | | * When we are dealing with the size of a file on disk or something that can be dealt without mapping or loading the whole thing into memory all at once, we want to use a type like "unsigned long long" that can represent sizes larger than 2^32 |
| | 4 | * As an optimization to our data structures, many should use unsigned instead of size_t, since on 64-bit systems this can make our objects much smaller, and there are many things that simply can’t go past 2^32^. |
| | 5 | * When we are dealing with the size of a file on disk or something that can be dealt without mapping or loading the whole thing into memory all at once, we want to use a type like "unsigned long long" that can represent sizes larger than 2^32^ even on 32-bit systems |
