@plaque is a list of 86 hashes, each of which has 3 keys (3 scalars) associated to three scalars (two being refs), both refs referring to a hash of about 507 keys (507 scalars), each associated to a scalar which is a reference to a list of 6 scalars. Therefore,

86 * (3 + 507 + 507*6) = 305472 scalars. Memory usage after forced numification 12444 kilobytes, yielding about 40 bytes per scalar (ignoring the overhead of lists and hashes themselves which I cannot measure due to lack of knowledge), which sounds pretty much the same as much simpler tests yield. But the question remains...

40 bytes per scalar?! I hardly need 4 bytes per scalar...

Ah well, guess I'll have to either forget it or go play with vec and substr. Which is not nice nor clean solution. I wonder if perl6 is going to do something about this.


In reply to Re: Re: My scalars swell by kaatunut
in thread My scalars swell by kaatunut

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