<cstdint> usage in source engine.

[Mipppy]

I was browsing through the code of the Source SDK, and I noticed that it doesn't use cstdint once. Wouldn't this have the potential to drastically reduce memory usage, without gatekeeping systems, as cstdint is a C++ standard? I noticed that a lot of integers really didn't need the entire 32 bits, and while you can use shorts, uint_8 in particular could be used to save a few bytes here and there, which would eventually add up over time.

Just wondering, thanks.

[movercell]

Is there that many miscellaneous integers around for that to matter? Unless there's multiple giant arrays of integers then that wouldn't really matter

[PiMoNFeeD]

Source already has it's own typedefs for those types, and Valve used them when necessary

also, on some CPUs, whole 4 byte integers are actually faster to process than 1-byte or 2-byte integers (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24371077/when-to-use-short-over-int)
in reality though you would see zero difference, plus you can always screw something up and break things if you actually care enough to spend months fixing the types for whatever reason...