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Gibbon1 on Feb 5, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zig; what I think after months of using it

With a 64 bit pointer you could make it bit addressable.

pcwalton on Feb 5, 2025 [–]

At that cost of having your loads no longer be hardware load instructions, which would be bad for performance.

Gibbon1 on Feb 5, 2025 | [–]

High performance memory systems aren't register based anyways.

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