[fpc-devel] Re: dominant short strings in compiler source

[Micha Nelissen]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 18:29:29 +0100
Peter Vreman <peter at freepascal.org> wrote:

> There are already some complains about the memory usage. Increasing the 
> string size adds a lot more overhead. Especially for all the small labels 
> like .L1 etc. Already using longstrings will add 3 bytes for the length 
> alsomost doubling the size from 4 to 7 bytes.

Don't shortstrings always use 256 bytes of memory ?

Micha