In Cocoa do you prefer NSInteger or int, and why?

Question

NSInteger/NSUInteger are Cocoa-defined replacements for the regular built-in types.

Is there any benefit to using the NS* types over the bu

Answer 1

For importing and exporting data to files or over the net I use UInt32, SInt64 etc...

These are guaranteed to be of a certain size regardless of the architecture and help in porting code to other platforms and languages which also share those types.