On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:02:55 -0500, bearophile <[email protected]>
wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer:
Most of the time the extra word isn't noticed
because the memory size of a class is usually not exactly a power of 2.
I'd like to know in a normal object oriented program how much memory
this design actually wastes.
Thank you to you and Kagamin for your answers,
bye,
bearophile
1 word per object, assuming a uniform distribution of object sizes. Yes,
_most_ objects aren't affected, but the ones that are make up for the
difference by using twice the ram.
