Op Fri, 19 May 2006, schreef Micha Nelissen:
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 18:29:29 +0100
> Peter Vreman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > There are already some complains about the memory usage. Increasing the
> > string size adds a lot more overhead. Especially for all the small labels
> > like .L1 etc. Already using longstrings will add 3 bytes for the length
> > alsomost doubling the size from 4 to 7 bytes.
>
> Don't shortstrings always use 256 bytes of memory ?
It depends on wether they are stored in a variable of type "string", or
allocated on the heap with a "Pstring". In all data structures where
memory usage is an issue, the memory friendly Pstring is used.
Still, because the compiler uses a lot of short strings, the internal heap
data structures are an important factor in the memory usage of these
strings.
Daniël
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