On 2018-05-11, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Computers haven't read a single 8 bit byte in years, some reading
> 128 or 256 bits in a single read cycle today.
Nonsense. All modern CPUs that I'm aware of still still support
single byte reads, and compilers still use those instructions when the
size of the object being read is 8 bits.
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