11 Sep
2001
11 Sep
'01
11:42 a.m.
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Largely. As an analogy, in database design sometimes one has to de-normalise a perfect database for efficiency. It's rather inefficient to store a 32 bit reference to a 32 bit number, and for chars it's much worse. Fx, "Hi World" is 8 chars (ignoring terminator). This is 8 bytes in Java, or 8*4+8 = 40 in MangleLang.
hope I'm not being pedantic, but Java stores a character as 16 bytes, it uses unicode... Sz
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