5 Oct
2010
5 Oct
'10
2:41 p.m.
I don't have a horse in this race; but I am curious as to why you wouldn't ask for `chunkOverhead = 16' as that seems to be your intent as well as what the expression works out to on any machine in common use.
Sorry, after I sent my long explanation I see what you are really asking. I was going by the assumption that someone really did measure and find out that keeping the length and pointer information in the same page as the bytestring data is a significant win. While saying "chunkOverhead = 16" would still work it's simply false for imaginary 128bit Haskell machines (Cell SPEs?), and I don't like betting against commercial changes in computing. Cheers, Thomas