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When working with byte streams, do you think I get any benefit of working with `Byte/UByte` (unsigned types partial stable since v1.5) instead of `Int`? I deal most of the time with values in the range of 0-255. I'm also thinking about the architecture of the cpu (cpu natively works better with `Int` while there might be extra steps to convert from `Byte` to `Int`???) but tbh, I'm not so deep in this topic. This question might be a no brainer but anyway I'm curious about the pros and cons if there are any.

Byte/UByte at the interface level is useful for expressing intention

but all arithmetic promotes to Int- or Long-sized values

e.g. `operator fun Byte.plus(Byte): Int`, `operator fun UByte.plus(UByte): UInt`

in practice, there are no extra steps to convert from Byte to Int; instead, there are extra steps to ensure that the Int-sized registers and memory used to are masked to a Byte-sized value

Sounds good, then I will continue working with Byte/UByte. Thanks for the insights