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Considering the basic data types like char, int, float, double etc..in any standard language C/C++, Java etc
Is there anything like..”operating on integers are faster than operating on characters”.. by operating I mean assignment, arithmetic op/ comparison etc.
Are data types slower than one another?
For almost anything you’re doing this has almost no effect, but purely for informational purposes, it is usually fastest to work with data types whose size is machine word size (i.e. 32 bits on x86 and 64-bits on amd64). Additionally, SSE/MMX instructions give you benefits as well if you can group these and work on them at the same time