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Starting with one considered harmful.
by 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
Starting with one considered harmful.
- Gibbon1 11y agoI always had this feeling that with one based indexing, 70s era compilers ended up subtracting one from the index. For each and every element access made. Because memory decoding circuits don't start at one, they 'start' with 0000...000. Course it would be possible to just waste the first element, but 70's era memory... Waste a 16 bit word here, and there and suddenly you're talking real money.