12 Jan
2022
12 Jan
'22
2:20 p.m.
Hi
Sometimes I stored byte data (lists of bytes) in arrays. IIRC, I read once in IRC that one value in a Pd-array requires not 4 bytes, but 8 bytes on 64-bit systems. Since storing plain bytes seems not such an uncommon use case for me, I wonder if it can be done more efficiently. Not that I ever hit a memory limit, I'm just curious. With the new (amazing!) [file] object, dealing with byte lists has become even more appealing, so the desire to store them in memory increases.
Roman