From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: Rules for Representation of Subtypes
Date: 1996/10/01
Date: 1996-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DyMA6y.4w3@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1996Oct1.125614.1@eisner
In article <1996Oct1.125614.1@eisner>,
Larry Kilgallen <kilgallen@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>Will the demand for Unicode support make 16 bits the typical
>size of a Storage Unit ? Or will egalitarian support for
>those Korean dialects drive it to 32 bits ?
No. To efficiently handle unicode, you need to do some sort of packing.
Even with cheap memory, space optimization matters, because space
optimization implies speed optimization when using caches and paging to
disks.
I suspect 8-bit bytes will be around for a long time, since there's a
lot of C code that depends on it. I also suspect that word sizes will
be powers of 2 for a long time. Except for the minor factor of existing
software, today's 64-bit machines would be either 64-bit-addressable, or
1-bit-addressable, methinks.
- Bob
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1996-09-28 0:00 Rules for Representation of Subtypes Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Art Schwarz
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Brian R. Hanson
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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1996-10-10 0:00 W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 Franco Mazzanti
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-22 0:00 Matthew Heaney
1996-09-23 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1996-09-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-09-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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