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Tell me the truth ... (europe.pub)

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[–] excral@feddit.org 11 points 1 week 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.