~ chicken-core (chicken-5) 1218353a7867e19403950c3f7d060dd38275ffca
commit 1218353a7867e19403950c3f7d060dd38275ffca
Author: Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl>
AuthorDate: Tue May 6 00:50:52 2014 +0200
Commit: Peter Bex <peter.bex@xs4all.nl>
CommitDate: Tue May 6 00:50:52 2014 +0200
sync again :)
diff --git a/manual/Data representation b/manual/Data representation
index 52910e0f..129e7058 100644
--- a/manual/Data representation
+++ b/manual/Data representation
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ single machine word.
The 24 (56 on 64-bit systems) lowest-order bits contain the length of
the data object, which is either the number of bytes in a string or
byte-vector, or the number of elements for a vector or record type. This
-allows a maximum size for data objects of 2^24 bytes, or approximately
-16 MB, on 32-bit systems, and 2^56 bytes, or approximately 72 PB, on
-64-bit systems.
+allows a maximum size for string or byte-vectors of 2^24 bytes, or
+approximately 16 MB, on 32-bit systems, and 2^56 bytes, or approximately
+72 PB, on 64-bit systems.
The remaining bits are placed in the high-order end of the header.
The four highest-order bits are used for garbage
Trap