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182 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source

1. kazinator ◴[18 Oct 24 02:32 UTC] No.41875881[source]▶

There are DSP chips that have C compilers, and do not have 8 bit bytes; smallest addressable unit is 16 (or larger).

Less than a decade ago I worked with something like that: the TeakLite III DSP from CEVA.

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte