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Re: [Chicken-users] Large vector
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Will M Farr |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Large vector |
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Thu, 10 May 2007 14:32:01 -0400 |
Mark,
On May 10, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Mark Voortman wrote:
Where did all the space
go?
Each scheme object has a header word which stores: 1) Various type
tags and 2) the length of the object. So, the extra space went into
type tags---there are 24 bits reserved for the length, and the
remaining 8 bits are for various tags.
You can read more about this here: http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/Data%
20representation
Sorry for the bad news.
Will