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[Aviator]

Help.me understand this.
WhatsApp group may only contain 256 members at most. This is coz of the design of their contacts storage which uses 8 bits this translating to 256 users.
My question is, why use 8 bits? Why not use 16? Or 32? Is an app designed on 8bits cheaper or why would they do such a thing?

 

[Liberty]

while at it, naomba kujulishwa maana ya VBR na CBR, Stereo na Mono.

 

[mzeiya]

From Quora...

Another simple but more plausible answer

 

[Introvert]

Nangoja @It's Me Scumbag akuje hapa na Certificate yake ya Internet Things ya Pivot Point Beauty College awafundishe.

 

[JazzMan]

Nangoja @It's Me Scumbag akuje hapa na Certificate yake ya Internet Things ya Pivot Point Beauty College awafundishe.

Huko alifunzwa kudeploy hot comb na mascara kwa cloud ama? Halafu aipake Dax ndio isikuwe na bugs.

 

[It's Me Scumbag]

Nangoja @It's Me Scumbag akuje hapa na Certificate yake ya Internet Things ya Pivot Point Beauty College awafundishe.

Huko alifunzwa kudeploy hot comb na mascara kwa cloud ama? Halafu aipake Dax ndio isikuwe na bugs.

Ngojeni nitafute my notes...na @JazzMan ndo amejua only that those days it was a floppy disk. Scratch ya heads over that one nighas

 

[Anglututu]

Huko alifunzwa kudeploy hot comb na mascara kwa cloud ama? Halafu aipake Dax ndio isikuwe na bugs.

Damn eti Dax, man long since I heard someone refer to this. Iko kwa duka kweli siku hizi?

 

[JazzMan]

Damn eti Dax, man long since I heard someone refer to this. Iko kwa duka kweli siku hizi?

After kutype nikajiambia wacha niitafute. Bado iko lakini maduka za UK, packaging ni ile ile.

 

[Aviator]

From Quora...
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Another simple but more plausible answer
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Second one looks more plausible.

 

[bigDog]

It was a design decision. i386 processor that was introduced in 1985 is 32 bit meaning that you can natively load addresses and manipulate them without an extra cycle. In any case, a WhatsApp message takes more time "on the wire" . It takes more time to transmit the message then it takes to resolve addresses. Don't also forget the little detail of encryption. A story for another day.