Re: [f-cpu] Are 8 bits SIMD mode usefull ?

[Michael Riepe <michael@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 08:37:07PM +0000, nico wrote:
> Just a stupid question : is 8 bits integer mode usefull ?

Yes!

> "Char" C type are going to be 16 bits (unicode) or even 32. 3D are going
> in floating point even in the GPU. Gimp use 16 bit per channel (in
> certain mode, even more ?). 

What you mean is `wchar_t', not `char'. And even that can be encoded
in a series of bytes (that's called UTF-8).

8-bit mode isn't dead. I guess it will never die.

-- 
 Michael "Tired" Riepe <Michael.Riepe@stud.uni-hannover.de>
 "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die"
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