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<p><font face="Arial">Hello,</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">As reported @
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bugzilla.scilab.org/12789">http://bugzilla.scilab.org/12789</a> in 2013 (so 2 years before the
first 6.0 alpha release), in Scilab 5 each boolean takes 4 bytes
to be stored.</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">It is 4 times more than an easy storage and
handling with 1 byte per boolean, and 32 times more than a
memory optimum with 8 booleans per byte.<br>
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Since [names, memory]=who(..) is broken in Scilab 6, i did not
check that this poor memory usage is still actual in 6.0.<br>
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Assuming that it is the case, then, what would imply to change
the storage -- say with 1 byte per boolean --<br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Arial">in terms of implementation : would it be
heavy to implement?<br>
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<li><font face="Arial">in terms of back-compatibility : would it
have a big impact?<br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Regards</font></p>
<p><font face="Arial">Samuel</font></p>
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