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		frutiger 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes Because of aligned reads any pointer size between 32-bit and 64-bit would end up using 64-bits anyway.

IshKebab 4 months ago [–]

With 8-bit bytes, yes.

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