cpstrnew branch (was Re: [fpc-devel] Freepascal 2.4.0rc1 released)

[Sergei Gorelkin]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
> I have not looked at the cpstrnew branch, but what is the 4 bytes used
> for in each string? Couldn't the individual bits in 1 byte value be
> used? That will reduce the extra memory overhead by 75%?
> 
It won't. 4 bytes will be used anyway because of alignment.
On x86_64, it is even 8 bytes.

Sergei