Re: Small Variant Records in C

From	"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Small Variant Records in C
Date	2011-12-19 17:24 +0000
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"Marco Devillers" <marco.devillers@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Dec 19, 3:25 am, "BartC" <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>> "Marco Devillers" <marco.devill...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> > I mean, the game is to have a variant type where each subtype
>> > allocates a minimal number of bits (rounded of by a word size I
>> > chose). Is there a solution?
>>
>> How important is it to have the minimum number (of bytes usually rather
>> than
>> bits)?
>
> Well, the current problem is that I allocate *cough* 15M chars. So,
> apart from that I didn't do some of the algorithms very bright
> *cough*, that works out to
>  15 M chars
>  32 bytes for a char,
>  48 bytes for a cons cell,

OK, I'll ask the obvious question: what's in the other 31 (or 28) bytes of 
the memory used by a single char?

-- 
Bartc

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Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 10:16 -0800
  Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 18:50 +0000
    Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 15:00 -0500
      Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 12:23 -0800
        Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-18 21:15 +0000
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 14:13 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-19 00:26 +0000
            Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 02:25 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 19:08 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 17:24 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 11:43 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 15:21 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 13:38 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-19 16:48 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 17:19 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 15:14 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 21:44 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 14:02 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-12-19 18:38 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-04 03:52 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-04 20:25 +1300
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 15:53 -0800
        Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 18:35 -0500
          Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 16:01 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> - 2011-12-19 00:26 +0000
              Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 17:02 -0800
            Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-18 19:53 -0500
              Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 01:36 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 18:21 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 02:52 +0000
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Marco Devillers <marco.devillers@gmail.com> - 2011-12-18 19:17 -0800
                Re: Small Variant Records in C Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-19 09:24 -0500
                Re: Small Variant Records in C "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-19 17:18 +0000

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