In article <35329 at think.UUCP> barmar at kulla.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes: >But is an extra 64Kbytes of data much of a problem in these >days of large and/or virtual memories? Yes! The reason for stopping at 8-bit chunks is that all modern architectures can efficiently access that size, for a very good time/space tradeoff.