Hi Gabriele

Just for clarification; does that imply that each character in a string 
requires 16 bytes?

 >> before: system/stats
== 1946183
 >> my-string: "a"
== "a"
 >> after: system/stats
== 1947087
 >> after - before
== 904
 >>

or possibly more?

Regards

Peter

On Sunday, February 4, 2007, at 06:13  pm, Gabriele Santilli wrote:

>
> Hi Charles,
>
> On Saturday, February 3, 2007, 3:53:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> C> 10 bytes for an integer ?  Why so large ?
>
> It's  16  bytes  actually, for the current implementation. A value
> slot in a block is simply 16 bytes, no matter what you put in.
>
> Regards,
>    Gabriele.
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