[erlang-questions] simple question about list memory consumption

Magnus Henoch magnus.henoch@REDACTED
Fri Jul 6 15:15:09 CEST 2012


> Small enough integers (28/60 bit signed integers) *are* stored as
> immediates in the list cells.
> 
> /Sverker, Erlang/OTP

Oh, now I see - I was misreading the page Bob linked.  It says
"1 word + 2 words per character" which I read as
"(1 word + 2 words) per character"...

Makes more sense now :)

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Magnus Henoch
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