Comment on I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years (2016)parentComments−ale428mousing 64-bit numbers, which is exactly the right solutionOn a 64-bit platform, sure. When you're working on ring buffers with an 8-bit microcontroller, using 64-bit numbers would be such an overhead that nobody would even think of it.
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On a 64-bit platform, sure. When you're working on ring buffers with an 8-bit microcontroller, using 64-bit numbers would be such an overhead that nobody would even think of it.