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> is vanishingly small. Ladies and gentlemen, this thought is why we now consider 8GB of ram to be a "weak device". No, no no no no, 1000 times no. Every situ

• InitialLastName 5y ago
  What I'm saying is that the case where you want to use less RAM for a bit field but you don't actually care if the compiler allocates less then an addressable line of RAM for that bit field (because it actually just might not) is pretty empty. Edit: I know it's hard to read a whole sentence at once, but I made that same point directly up there too.