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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 16bit C compilers
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:08:47 +0000
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forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk writes:

> or perhaps just to avoid wasting space on even more zero bits,
> especially if there is little or no cost associated with the use of 32
> bits instead of 64.

Since memory is so expensive these days...