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Hemospectrum
on Jan 3, 2012
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GNU /bin/ed 1.6 released
If you assume you'll never need the 8th bit of any given character (which you wouldn't, if you only ever handle pure 7-bit ASCII) you can safely use it for storing a single bit of per-character metadata to avoid consuming excess memory.
dextorious
on Jan 3, 2012
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actually its wxactly the opposite
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