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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

&u8 is a reference to a single byte.

I'm not sure this meme really cares to make perfect sense, but I don't think that's ever useful...?

A single byte is going to be smaller than a pointer address, so you can just copy the u8 without loss of efficiency.