I'm drowning in PHP
Andy Armstrong
andy at hexten.net
Tue May 15 14:47:27 BST 2007
On 15 May 2007, at 13:56, David Cantrell wrote:
> Anyway, if you want to be efficient, you don't use a marker character,
> you use a marker bit. Just set the high bit of the last character
> to 1
> like we used to in the good old days when men were men and
> computers had
> cassette players.
Yeah baby. The first 6502 disassembler I wrote packed three ascii
characters into two bytes for the mnemonic lookup table - and
probably cost more than as much again in additional decode logic :)
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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
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