BIT Counting: C programming problem

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <12571 at diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau at bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>In comp.lang.c (<8398 at dasys1.UUCP>), ejablow at dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) 
>writes:
>>[Barry Margolin suggests using a 64K lookup table for something.]
[Barry is at Thinking Machines, builders of the Connection Machine.]
>>
>>That is a ridiculous idea.  For microscopic savings in speed, you
>>waste 63K of space...what if it needs 400K to run effectively, or 
>>even 640K...Besides, more and more people are going to multiprogramming 
>>environments, even on PCs, like Windows or DesqView.  
>
>Anyone else noticed that the "all the world's a VAX" mentality seems to be 
>turning into an "all the world's a PC" mentality?  Positively frightening.

Anyone else notice that Barry could very well assign each number to a
different _computer_ in the initialization...?

				--Blair
				  "Life...is a tree."