Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Millennium Bug (20yrs on) - Computerphile" video.

@davidwright7193 that's extremely low. but still whether a byte per record more would matter would depend, on the total size of a record. if 1000 records would fit then the size of each record would be at most 16 bytes. 1 byte would increase memory usage by at most 6.25%. i would be tempted to think that this percentage wouldn't make that much difference. it seems like you would always run into the memory limit anyway, with or without that extra byte. would these records be stored in a central system?
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@thettguy 1 byte it's not that much relative to the rest of a record. i suspect that there was a lot of premature optimization back then, because of the way you think
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