Mark,

On May 10, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Mark Voortman wrote:

Where did all the space
go?

Each scheme object has a header word which stores: 1) Various type tags and 2) the length of the object. So, the extra space went into type tags---there are 24 bits reserved for the length, and the remaining 8 bits are for various tags.

You can read more about this here: http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/Data% 20representation

Sorry for the bad news.

Will


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