07-17-2016, 02:10 PM
I would advise not going beyond 8 bits, only if you do floating point stuff. We can mostly work on 8 bit values and when higher is required we use the flags to extend the calculation. Lag as well as size makes it a bit unwieldy. I am not sure about what you mean by the 16 bit storage access though; normally you don't use storage like you do RAM (chunks of data rather).