From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Strings
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:57:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws9zfuyz.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904050355.31170.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (Jon Harrop's message of "Sun, 5 Apr 2009 03:55:31 +0100")
Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> writes:
> On Saturday 04 April 2009 22:51:50 Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> The beauty of ocaml strings is that they are really compact. An ocaml
>> string on 32bit is 5-8 bytes longer than the contained string and 9-16
>> bytes on 64bit.
>
> The ugliness is that 16Mb limit. I assume those limits have been removed in
> batteries?!
As that is a limitation of the GC memory structure of a string there
is nothing batteries can do there. Not for the basic type string. It
is also just 32bit that is so severly limited.
MfG
Goswin
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-03 11:56 Strings Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 12:25 ` [Caml-list] Strings Paolo Donadeo
2009-04-03 14:18 ` Ashish Agarwal
2009-04-03 14:46 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 15:03 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 16:52 ` Martin Jambon
2009-04-03 17:50 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 19:46 ` Paolo Donadeo
2009-04-03 20:41 ` Harrison, John R
2009-04-04 10:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 11:12 ` David Teller
2009-04-04 11:40 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 12:34 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-18 12:31 ` Arkady Andrukonis
2009-04-04 10:13 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-03 21:44 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-04 9:10 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 10:06 ` Strings Zheng Li
2009-04-06 9:20 ` Strings David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-06 10:07 ` Strings Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-06 11:03 ` Strings Zheng Li
2009-04-04 17:11 ` [Caml-list] Strings Kuba Ober
2009-04-04 17:26 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-05 20:54 ` Richard Jones
2009-04-05 23:40 ` Daniel Bünzli
2009-04-03 18:24 ` Florian Hars
2009-04-03 20:34 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2009-04-04 10:20 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 9:14 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-04 9:26 ` Alp Mestan
2009-04-04 10:55 ` blue storm
2009-04-04 21:51 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-04 23:35 ` Yaron Minsky
2009-04-05 9:36 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 10:08 ` Alp Mestan
2009-04-05 21:41 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 21:40 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 2:55 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-05 4:22 ` Edgar Friendly
2009-04-05 7:03 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 6:57 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2009-04-05 7:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 10:11 ` Jon Harrop
2009-04-04 21:39 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-05 7:14 ` Romain Beauxis
2009-04-05 9:34 ` David Rajchenbach-Teller
2009-04-05 21:37 ` Goswin von Brederlow
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