> Keep in mind that Strings are lists of characters. I think (somebody > correct me if I'm wrong) GHC will store a character inside a cons > cell, but that still leaves 8 bytes per character. Worst case it will > store the 8-byte cons cell pointing to a 32-bit char value, 12 bytes > per character. (Strings as lists-of-char is very useful, but not > terribly efficient).
Worst case: 16 bytes per character, usual case (all characters <= '\xff'): 8 bytes per character, because we have static copies of characters 0-255 in the RTS. Using Data.PackedString or UArray Char: 4 bytes per character. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe