begin theory

src/bits.c

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 #define BUFFER_SIZE 4096
 #define IGNORE(param) do { (void)(param); } while(0)
 
+//TODO: For explicitly threaded version: Make a lazy thread spawner, spawning up to 8 threads which will each work on a byte and atomically write back to a central array of `uint64_t [num_of_bytes / num_of_threads]`. 
+//TODO: But how to sync the fwrites of this buffer? An atomic counter of which threads have completed their operations, and a condvar that allows the controlling thread to check if the counter is full before `fwrite_all()`ing the array, resetting the counter, and carrying on
+
 static inline int sfread(void* out, size_t *restrict size, FILE* f)
 {
 	return !!(*size = (size_t)fread(out, 1, *size, f));