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[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Still odd, I very much doubt they use a 8bit variable to set this limit. What would this bring ?

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When the program is running it's probably stored with 32 or 64 bits, but that probably isn't the case for the network packet layout. I can imagine them wanting to optimize network traffic with over 3 billion users even if it's just a small improvement.

Also TIL that Erlang's VM apparently stores strings as linked lists of chars. Very strange.

data representation of string 'phi'

[-] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Still odd

Actually, it's even.

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