On 2018-05-11, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Computers haven't read a single 8 bit byte in years, some reading > 128 or 256 bits in a single read cycle today.
Nonsense. All modern CPUs that I'm aware of still still support single byte reads, and compilers still use those instructions when the size of the object being read is 8 bits. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! An INK-LING? Sure -- at TAKE one!! Did you BUY any gmail.com COMMUNIST UNIFORMS?? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list