Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Yeah, it does take a lot, and it uses unicode for characters too,
> I think I heard it takes about 12 bytes per character that way.
> It's perty bad on big files.

  But hey, that's the fad in modern programming: Memory usage and speed
are irrelevant. Processors are getting faster and memory amounts are
doubling every couple of years, so who cares if something like a string
takes 12 times as much memory as it could?

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                                                          - Warp

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