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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean is it really a waste? What's minimum amount of bits most CPUs read in one cycle.

[-] excral@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago

In terms of memory usage it's a waste. But in terms of performance you're absolutely correct. It's generally far more efficient to check is a word is 0 than to check if a single bit is zero.

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