In a byte addressed space with 32bit addressing, it takes up 32bits of memory to reference 8 bits?
So the addressing is the major portion of Memory?
Am I conceptualizing this correctly?
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In a byte addressed space with 32bit addressing, it takes up 32bits of memory to reference 8 bits?
So the addressing is the major portion of Memory?
Am I conceptualizing this correctly?
No. It takes 32 bits to reference a contiguous region of any size. If you have a 1 megabyte buffer, you’re not going to store a pointer to every byte inside it, you’ll just store a pointer to the beginning of it.