[Scilab-users] scilab memory usage

[Clément David]

Hello,

Of course no, in Scilab the default type is "double". You can construct
any other datatype using type-functions [1].

[1]: http://help.scilab.org/docs/5.4.1/en_US/int8.html

Le dimanche 05 janvier 2014 à 17:07 +0000, Stephan Schreckenbach a
écrit :
> Does scilab itself declare the variables to the type of lowest
> possible
> memory consumption? Or do I have to do that? How?
> 
> 
> 
> Samuel Gougeon <sgougeon at free.fr> schrieb am 15:09 Sonntag, 5.Januar
> 2014:
> 
> Le 04/01/2014 23:31, Stephan Schreckenbach a écrit :
> 
> > 
> > .../... 
> > Since scilab processes all data as variant, how much memory is
> > required for each constant or variable, being string, integer or
> > double?
> > 
> > .../...
> > 
> roughly:
> string : 4 bytes per character (UTF-8 encoded)
> integer: (u)int8 : 1 byte   (u)int16 : 2 bytes    (u)int32: 4 bytes
> double: 8 bytes
> boolean: 4 bytes
> + few other bytes to encode the format ( vector, matrix,
> hypermatrix...)

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Clément