[RBASE-L] - Re: text (1) vs. integer - Razzak's Reply

[A. Razzak Memon]

At 13:33 18/01/2003 -0800, Atrix Wolfe wrote:

I was wondering for preformance, which would be better to have
for a column which has 4 possible states(1,2,3,4 vs A,B,C,D) ?
Would it be text (1) since a char takes up 1 or 2 bytes (depending
on if its unicode or not...not sure how rbase stores it) or would it be
integer (4 bytes?).

Atrix,

In either case, R:BASE reserves a minimum of four bytes of
internal storage space.

Cheers,

Razzak.