Thanks for the pointer. Once again: string representation is not the issue at hand. The question is only what the size of the "char" data type should be.
Jonathan On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Constantine Plotnikov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Is there an obviously preferable choice? If not, then given that we want to >> be able to target these platforms, what do you think we should to about all >> this? >> > Some time ago I stumbled across the project where some experiments > with string representation were apparently done > (https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/wiki/StringRepresentations). I > have not found a detailed information on the site about what the > recordN format is. It looks like they claim O(1) read/write random > access while having N+20 bytes memory usage for ASCII strings(?). > Possibly it would make sense to contact them about it. > > Constantine > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev > > _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
