Linda Walsh tlinx.org> writes:
> I understand perl may not be as efficient in data storage as
> C, but seems like expanding a 100MB string to take 200MB is
> wasting 100MB.
>
> Is this what you were referring to, Corinna?
No, the inefficiency is that it stores the 100MB string in two separate
p
$a="a"; (uses 2 Bytes)
$a="a" * 100Meg; (uses 200MB)
$b="b" * 100Meg;
...
I may be reading this incorrectly, but I don't think the question
is why storage for the separate strings "$a", "$b" isn't freed, but
why would perl use 2 bytes/character? I thought perl used UTF-8
internally(?).
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