[Mldonkey-users] [patch #4510] IP: Save Memory by using chars instead of int

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #2, patch #4510 (project mldonkey):

char's are supposed to be 8 bits, while int32's are atleast 32 and boxed for
GC.

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual010.html
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Int32.html

Maybe char's are the way to go even if ugly?

It would be nice to have some statistics to see if the memory savings
introduced by using chars truely outweighs the ugly (read: harder to maintain
and read, more likely to introduce conversion bugs, ...) code. Needs to be
well tested.


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