Reinitializing variables & their speed sacrifice

[nbaztec]

Who cares about two bytes when memory is measured in gigabytes these days.

Though agree on first statement, but this is rather over-hyped. I once almost gave all of my ram away, just because I wanted to compute upon 999K-digited number(& I mean multiplication), then I realized that if i made that class element of linkd list as short int, much of my memory cud be spared. Though agreed Cheap Memory does have its pros....