[Zope3-dev] Space usage of unicode strings in the ZODB

[Stephan Richter]

At 12:13 PM 2/14/2002 -0500, Andreas Jung wrote:
>Unicode strings:
>internal UCS-2 encoding         5.4 MB
>internal UCS-4 encoding         5.4 MB
>
>
>I am astonished that unicode strings require the same space -
>independant from their internal storage in Python (2 vs. 4 bytes).

Could this be because py_malloc allocates in 64 bit chunks?

Regards,
Stephan

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