1. Sequence compression question.
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How much memory does a sequence use.
for example how much memory is allocated for an empty sequence. And how much
memory is used for a sequence of say 4 subscripts and is there extra empty memory
being allocated.
The reason I ask, is that I have a method similer to formula converting binary
into decimal, to compress single words in a string to single integers in a
sequence, then convert back to a string of words. Would this actualy save much
memory for stored strings?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How much memory does a sequence use.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>for example how much memory is allocated for an
empty sequence. And how much memory is used for a sequence of say 4 subscripts
and is there extra empty memory being allocated.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason I ask, is that I have a method
similer to formula converting binary into decimal, to compress single words
in a string to single integers in a sequence, then convert back to a string
of words. Would this actualy save much memory for stored strings?</FONT></DIV>
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2. Re: Sequence compression question.
Hayden McKay wrote:
> How much memory does a sequence use.
> for example how much memory is allocated for an empty sequence. And how
> much memory is used for a sequence of say 4 subscripts and is
> there extra empty memory being allocated.
>
> The reason I ask, is that I have a method similer to formula converting
> binary into decimal, to compress single words in a string to single
> integers in a sequence, then convert back to a string of words. Would
> this actualy save much memory for stored strings?
If you look at euphoria\include\euphoria.h,
you'll see a C structure called struct s1.
(There used to be a struct s2, but it was eliminated
years ago.)
struct s1 has 4 fields of size 4 bytes each. This 16-byte
structure appears as the header of all sequences.
The elements of a sequence are always 4 bytes,
even if they represent very small integers.
Floating-point numbers and sequences are
represented by 4-byte pointers to other blocks of data.
Of course, anything that is allocated from the heap
will have other storage overheads, e.g. the size of
the allocated block, or some filler space to get
the desired alignment in memory, etc.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
