On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:02:55 -0500, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:

Steven Schveighoffer:

Most of the time the extra word isn't noticed
because the memory size of a class is usually not exactly a power of 2.

I'd like to know in a normal object oriented program how much memory this design actually wastes.

Thank you to you and Kagamin for your answers,
bye,
bearophile

1 word per object, assuming a uniform distribution of object sizes. Yes, _most_ objects aren't affected, but the ones that are make up for the difference by using twice the ram.

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