Re: value bytes of error codes

• Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:54:30 PST
• From:
  hpa@trantor.zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
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  hpa@storm.net (H. Peter Anvin)
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By author:    Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
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> 
> Perhaps I will change the definition of value_bytes() to be more intuitive in
> 1.8.0p3, by adding 8 to all values it returns.  Of course, I will
> also make the 
> corresponding change in object_bytes() to make sure no byte of memory is
> double-charged.
> 

If you do, you should probably also add the overhead added by the
memory manager (arena pointer + reference count = 8 bytes?) for
strings, floats and lists as well as list heads...

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