On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:49 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > 13. is -> are
> >
> > * accessed data is stored contiguously in memory in as few cache lines as
>
> Oh? 'data are stored' sounds wrong to me, somehow.
In computer contexts it seems pretty well established that we treat
"data" as an uncountable noun (like "air"), so I think "is" is right
here. In maths or science contexts it's usually treated as a plural
following Latin, which admittedly sounds cleverer, but it also has a
slightly different meaning, not bits and bytes but something more like
samples or (wince) datums.