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theultdev 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes

> a little more overhead (50% instead of 33%)

a little?

layer8 11 months ago [–]

A 12.5% increase, or 1/8. Yes, a little. Compared to, say, hexadecimal, which would be a 50% increase. Or URL percent-encoding, which would be a 125% increase.

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