On 11 Nov 2009, at 13:47, Micha Nelissen wrote:

Jonas Maebe wrote:
No, 25 bytes. The plain ansistring 'a' is already 17 bytes on x86_64 platforms today.

Is that because of sizeint?

Yes.

Wouldn't longint be long enough?

If you'd want to limit the length to 2GB on 64 bit systems. I also don't know whether all 64 bit CPUs support atomic operations on 32 bit entities (for the reference count).


Jonas
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