On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:43:26AM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> At 13:35 09/09/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >With 24 bytes per cell it might be about 160 kB. That doesn't matter
> >in most cases, but maybe in some applications it's a shame to use so
> >much memory.
>
> uh...24 BITS (20 Kbytes total) or 24 BYTES (160 Kbytes total) per cell?
I get 24 * 24 * 80 = 46080.
Perhaps he's using a 65x100 screen: 156kb
(but the original point: using fixed-size arrays for everything is simple
but inefficient for people who aren't using the extra levels).
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