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Re: Lightweight Strings
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Lightweight Strings |
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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:02:50 -0500 |
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> How lightweight are strings in Emacs, if they don't contain any
> properties?
If you look at emacs/src/lisp.h and search for Lisp_String, you'll see
that strings are represented as a 4-word object:
- size in chars
- size in bytes
- pointer to text-properties interval tree
- pointer to the beginning of the string's content
Stefan