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> >Nah, people complain enough about wasted space ... admittedly > >there's a religous war on whether (in C terms) "wchar_t" should > >be 16 bits or 32. > > Developers do waste time optimizing for space, I'll grant you, but > nowadays people rarely complain because space optimization > doesn't really matter anymore, certainly not for text. Exactly the heresy I was referring to! Not only does space matter in small systems (Linux PDAs anyone?) but it also matters at the level of hardware: cache memory isn't growing very quickly, and certainly not as fast as the cost of data cache misses.
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