On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 06:10:02PM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote:
> > About 1 cell per character - if I understand correctly, that would be
> > 16bytes per character on 64 bit
I forgot to explain one more thing: It is not 16, but 32 bytes per character!
Each character in a 'chop'ped string is a transient symbol, occupying a cell,
plus one cell in the list per character is needed.
So ("a") takes two cells, or 32 bytes.
A symbol like "abcdefg" (up to 7 ASCII chars) also occupies only a single cell,
while in the chopped form ("a" "b" "c" "d" "e" "f" "g") it needs 14 cells.
☺/ A!ex
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