• nycki@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 days ago

    excellent point! at the time I was thinking about fixed-width binary specifically and trying to think of interesting uses for it, but that’s a good point.

    • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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      17 days ago

      Fixing it definitely has advantages too. Just off the top of my head: Code length growing linearly with word length is one thing, figuring out what the last letter is (which is important when reading quickly) is another.