On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM, William Leslie < [email protected]> wrote:
> I mean to say that the in-memory format should favour efficiency of > iteration and slicing rather than space efficiency. Space efficient > representations can be reserved for serialisation. UTF-8 is a > fantastic wire format, and it's great on disk, but the space-saving > advantages are less important once you are in-memory. So you're okay with reducing the D-cache and D-TLB performance on large-scale programs, and therefore their overall performance, by a factor of >4? That seems a bit over-purist to me. So first, I think this is the wrong way to prioritize as a matter of defaults, but second, I think I've already made it clear that no either/or choice is actually required.
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