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originally posted by gmm50@Oct 26 2005, 03:44 PM
i thought an image aws an image so 16 bits would be 2x as fast as 8 bits??? --- Quote End ---
That's correct. But reading 16 (or even 32) bits at a time would require 16 (or 32) bit alignment, which is not guaranteed by the toolchain. If the .data segment had an odd size (as it might if the last thing in it is an odd-sized char array, or maybe even just a bool or char global variable), things would get difficult fast.
Generally speaking, though, initialization code runs only once, and isn't usually worth optimizing for speed like that.
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