Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/29/17:26:09
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:07:23PM -0700, Stephan Mueller wrote:
> > "Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > "
> > " On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> > " > > > I've simplified the test case. It seems that Cygwin perl can't
> > " > > > handle too much memory. For instance:
> > " > > >
> > " > > > $ perl -e '$a="a"x(200 * 1024 * 1024); sleep 9'
> > " > > >
> > " > > > OK, this could have failed because $a might require 200 MB of
> > " > > > continuous space.
> > " > >
> > " > > Actually, $a requires *more* than 200MB of continuous space. Perl
> > " > > characters are 2 bytes, so you're allocating at least 400MB of
> > space!
> > " >
> > " > Right, UTF. I completely forgot about that.
> > "
> > " Unicode, actually.
> >
> > Unicode is a standard that defines 'code points' (numeric values) for a
> > whole lot of different characters. UTF-8 is a specific encoding of
> > Unicode. It has the nifty property that ASCII characters are encoded
> > just as in ASCII -- one byte, with the high bit clear, and the low seven
> > bits representing a character in the range 0..127. Characters above the
> > ASCII range require multiple bytes -- sometimes two, sometimes more.
> > The algorithm is quite clever; find it in The Unicode Standard or with a
> > quick Google search.
> >
> > Another popular encoding is UCS-2, which is roughly "16-bit words each
> > holding one Unicode character".
> >
> > The latter is frequently what people think of as "Unicode". The former
> > is what perl uses internally to encode characters.
> >
> > End result is that the perl internal representation in the example above
> > probably only needs about 200MB of space, and not double that, as
> > suggested.
>
> Correct; perl uses UTF-8 (actually, an extension of UTF-8 which allows
> codepoints up to 2**72-1).
As I said before, it might be nice if this were clearer from the
perlunicode man page.
> However code like the above does end up using twice the space; it's
> allocated once to store the result of the x operation and again when
> it's copied to $a.
D'oh! I forgot that this was an assignment, not an initialization. I
feel properly chastised. :-)
Igor
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