Thanks Alex,
Sorry ... I was distracted exploring vip :) ... I like the rule - "In
PicoLisp a shorter program is also faster" :)
What I take away is this. Whether it is 1 byte or 32 per character, one
will have to consider a case when the whole file does not fit in memory
(although a factor of 32 seems high). I'll take a look at @lib/xm.l to
understand it more.
Regards,
Kashyap
On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:57 AM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de>
wrote:
> 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
