this holds for all architectures (also 32-bit systems)
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lists of characters to Prolog programs are stored in packed
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lists of characters to Prolog programs are stored in packed
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UTF-8 encoding by the engine.
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UTF-8 encoding by the engine.
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Without this innovation, storing a list of characters in memory
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Without this innovation, storing a list of characters in memory would
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would use one memory cell per character, one memory cell per
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use one WAM memory cell per character, one cell per list
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list constructor, and one memory cell for each tail that occurs
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constructor, and one cell for each tail that occurs in the list. Since
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in the list. Since one memory cell takes 8 bytes on 64-bit
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one cell takes 8 bytes in the WAM as implemented by
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machines, the packed representation used by Scryer Prolog yields
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Scryer Prolog, the packed representation yields an up to
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an up to **24-fold reduction** of memory usage, and
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**24-fold reduction** of memory usage, and corresponding
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corresponding reduction of memory accesses when creating and
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reduction of memory accesses when creating and processing
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processing strings.
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strings.
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Scryer Prolog's compact internal string representation makes it
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Scryer Prolog's compact internal string representation makes it
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ideally suited for the use case Prolog was originally developed for:
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ideally suited for the use case Prolog was originally developed for:
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