On 2018-05-11, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-05-11, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> Computers haven't read a single 8 bit byte in years, some reading >> 128 or 256 bits in a single read cycle today. > > Nonsense. All modern CPUs that I'm aware of still still support > single byte reads, and compilers still use those instructions when the > size of the object being read is 8 bits.
It's not nonsense. The CPU might have a 'load a byte' instruction but it will actually read more than a byte and then throw away the extra. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
