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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 07:53:35 JST Julia Evans

   bytes, not bits

   (it was incredibly helpful for me when I learned to think about my computer's memory & data in bytes instead of bits)

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 07:59:16 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk My understanding is that things get very nuanced when discussing "words".

     If I've got this right data is read/written by the CPU into RAM in larger chunks, then its cache hierarchy splits it up onto whichever wordsize the CPU wants?

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 07:59:17 JST Julia Evans

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     I also think this page is slightly wrong -- my understanding is that data in memory is actually stored in words? (on my machine, 1 word = 4 bytes). But that feels like too much to get into here, and I'm still slightly confused about words