From: "Andreas S." <usenet@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T22:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about symbols

Matthew Smillie wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2005, at 8:32, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
>>> Symbols are never garbage-collected, so you should not use them for
>>> situations where you could have an unbounded number of unique
>>> symbol values.
>>
>>
>> That's why I recommended to use them with a limited set of values  only.
>>
>> Hope that makes things a bit clearer.
> 
> 
> I wonder if I could trouble the list a bit further on this one: I've  
> got a collection of newswire articles, and I was thinking of using  
> symbols to represent the words in each.

Why don't you use a proper compression method like gzip?