1. Re: RTFM
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at EMAIL.MSN.COM>
Apr 26, 1998
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Last edited Apr 27, 1998
Arthur Adamson writes:
> Rob, dictionaries, trees, etc would require considerably
> less space if there was a data type, useable in sequences,
> one byte instead of 4, to hold characters.
I'm going to look into the whole issue of memory management
and space reduction again sometime soon.
In the past, I've concluded that 1 byte per element
is very difficult to achieve without slowing down
execution speed, or making the interpreter
a lot bigger and buggier.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
