Strings (was: Re: are Mnesia tables immutable?)

[Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB)]

ke han wrote:
>
> I don't care about the internal representation of string so 
> long as its (a) _significantly_ more memory efficient than 
> one word per character in a list and (b) allows me to pass 
> these non-mutable strings between processes without a mem 
> copy each time.

If you want to see something memory-inefficient, try compiling
Erlang for 64-bit. Each character in a string will still be 
two heap words, but each word will now be 64 bits instead of 32.

/Ulf W  (: