On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 June 2013 14:39, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> On 2013-06-03, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Today though, it would be difficult to sell a conventional (Von Neumann) >>> computer that didn't have 8 bit bytes. >> >> There are tons (as in millions of units per month) of CPUs still being >> sold in the DSP market with 16, 20, 24, and 32 bit "bytes". (When >> writing C on a TMS320Cxx CPU sizeof (char) == sizeof (int) == sizeof >> (long) == sizeof (float) == sizeof (double) == 1. They all contain 32 >> bits. > ) > > *) for the bracket not in the reply > > Sorry.
So... can we cite http://xkcd.com/859/ in two threads at once, or does that create twice as much tension? Once an XKCD is un-cited, will it be garbage collected promptly, or do they contain refloops? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
