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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: BIT Counting: C programming problem
Message-ID: <9344@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 89 05:16:56 GMT
References: <225@tityus.UUCP> <35329@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <35329@think.UUCP> barmar@kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>But is an extra 64Kbytes of data much of a problem in these
>days of large and/or virtual memories?

Yes!

The reason for stopping at 8-bit chunks is that all modern architectures
can efficiently access that size, for a very good time/space tradeoff.