4 Apr
2006
4 Apr
'06
7:28 p.m.
In article <200604041755420357.2FCF5B55 at 10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
Depends on the architecture. Some aren't
byte-addressable, so it might
make a perverse sort of sense to stash a boolean in a 32-bit
word--certainly as far as speed of access goes.
Wasn't there an AMD chip that devoted two "registers" to the hardcoded
values 0 and 1 in the architecture?
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