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by haberman 5144 days ago
> Who'd have thought [...]

Well, Donald Knuth for one. Here's a blog entry I wrote about Donald Knuth and how he asked for this a while back. I think it makes a lot of sense and I'm really glad to see this maturing!

http://blog.reverberate.org/2011/09/making-knuth-wish-come-t...

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Yeah, I remember this one:

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/news08.html

Saving 32bits means a lot to him.