Memory layout of a data structure: Difference between revisions

 

In a similar way, text content may employ only a limited character set so perhaps five bits per symbol would suffice, or some other packing scheme might suggest itself. There is also a whole world of compression algorithms. The end result is that a data structure manifesting as records in a disc file may be difficult to unpack into a convenient internal form even given a careful description of the layout.

 

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