From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-11T01:32:33+09:00
Subject: Re: a better way to do this job?

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:28 AM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Julian Leviston wrote:
> > Slices and 'sub-arrays' aren't copies of the objects, they simply
> > refer to the identical objects.
> >
>
> Is it your opinion that an array of pointers takes up no memory?  Which
> takes up more memory: an array of int's or an array of pointers?
>


Well, an array of  Fixnums takes up the same space as an array of 'pointers'
to Fixnums, since Fixnums are immediate.

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