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Okay, we've finally gotten to the point where a string structure is
just Too Damn Big for it to be tenable to have massive arrays of
these things. It's just not going to work--an array of STRINGs will
be damned enourmous. So....
We need really packed string arrays. We were always going to do
integer and float arrays fully packed, but I'd planned on string
arrays being an array of string structs pointing to strings. Well,
that's *still* too big.
What we need is a string array that's about as compact as we can
possibly manage. We can certainly get away with tossing a lot of
what's in the String struct if we force all the strings in the array
to the same encoding/charset, and store the actual data in one big
buffer with offsets/charlengths or something.
Anyone care to take a shot at an initial design and maybe implementation?
--
Dan
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