Re: Memory usage stats for 5.2 vs 5.3

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> [...] That said, a big +1 from me for removing those
> additional 4 bytes (from TString.hnext) in Lua 5.3 :)

I think we can do that following Tom's idea of storing the length of
short strings in a byte. Long strings are not hashed, so they do not
need the 'hnext' field. The struct could look like this:

typedef struct TString {
  CommonHeader;
  lu_byte extra;  /* reserved words for short strings; "has hash" for longs */
  lu_byte shtlen;  /* length for short strings */
  unsigned int hash;
  union {
    size_t len;  /* length for long string */
    struct TString *hnext;  /* linked list for hash (only for short strings) */
  } u;
} TString;


-- Roberto