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minus-squaretired_n_boredlinkfedilinkEnglish11•7 days agoAs a software engineer: actually there is no need for a number of people as a power of 2 unless you need exactly 1 byte to store such information which sounds ridiculous for the size of Whatsapp
minus-square@Valmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 days agoOr some binary search tree with an artificial height lol.
minus-square@NigelFrobisher@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 days agoIt’d make sense at protocol level. Otherwise, yeah, even bit-size database columns end up being stored as a word unless the engine compacts it.
As a software engineer: actually there is no need for a number of people as a power of 2 unless you need exactly 1 byte to store such information which sounds ridiculous for the size of Whatsapp
Or some binary search tree with an artificial height lol.
It’d make sense at protocol level. Otherwise, yeah, even bit-size database columns end up being stored as a word unless the engine compacts it.