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Re: persistent data feature


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: persistent data feature
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:18:23 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I think in your case, even if the db quadruples, it’s still < 20MB in
> textual representation and probably much smaller when resided
> in the heap.

The textual representation can easily be smaller than the
in-heap representation.  A cons-cell typically uses up 16B nowadays, and
a string uses 32B in addition to the bytes of the actual characters.


        Stefan




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