[Oberon] Python vs oberon: requirements to store 1 byte in memory

[Hellwig Geisse]

Zdenek,

On Di, 2022-02-08 at 20:33 +0100, oberon-eth at email.cz wrote:
> Are you sure? When you have one long string than certainly you are right.
> But what if you allocate one hundred of strings of length say 10 bytes?
> total consumed size: 100 x 60 ???

you are of course right. As the smiley in my mail
was meant to indicate, this was a joke. The mean
ratio of total to usable bytes in general depends
on the probability distribution of the sizes of
the objects that are allocated.

Regards,
Hellwig