[aklug] Re: half a nibble?

From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 08:12:41 AKST

* Jason McEachen <jason@brightshinyobject.com> [121205 08:04]:

> Two bytes is a word, but I can't remember why it's called that.
> Think it had to do with addressing on sixteen bit architectures?
> I remember having to do arch checks in asm to decide if I needed
> to copy/move/walk words or longs for performance.
 
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