I agree that's wasteful, but if software were *only* 2x bigger, we'd be in reall...

		iainmerrick 55 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes I agree that's wasteful, but if software were only 2x bigger, we'd be in really good shape now. Unfortunately there are still another one or two more orders of magnitude to account for somehow.