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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lightweight Strings
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:46:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b7b8b0f-e831-48c7-8011-c35b00cd27c6@p8g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvhbt4cv9s.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org

On 9 Nov, 03:02, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > 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

Thanks,
Per


      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-10  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-08 21:14 Lightweight Strings Nordlöw
2009-11-08 21:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-09  2:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-10  9:46   ` Nordlöw [this message]

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