Hello, Of course no, in Scilab the default type is "double". You can construct any other datatype using type-functions [1].
[1]: http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.4.1/en_US/int8.html Le dimanche 05 janvier 2014 à 17:07 +0000, Stephan Schreckenbach a écrit : > Does scilab itself declare the variables to the type of lowest > possible > memory consumption? Or do I have to do that? How? > > > > Samuel Gougeon <[email protected]> schrieb am 15:09 Sonntag, 5.Januar > 2014: > > Le 04/01/2014 23:31, Stephan Schreckenbach a écrit : > > > > > .../... > > Since scilab processes all data as variant, how much memory is > > required for each constant or variable, being string, integer or > > double? > > > > .../... > > > roughly: > string : 4 bytes per character (UTF-8 encoded) > integer: (u)int8 : 1 byte (u)int16 : 2 bytes (u)int32: 4 bytes > double: 8 bytes > boolean: 4 bytes > + few other bytes to encode the format ( vector, matrix, > hypermatrix...) -- Clément _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
