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       10B Integers Walk into an Array
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-10-14 09:59 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | Elfener wrote:
       | > This is one place where static typing and primitive types fall
       | short.
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       | I can't reproduce it here, but I found it really funny that
       | "short" was monospaced, like it was the type.
        
       | superjan wrote:
       | The author wonders why he does not see a memory footprint for the
       | billions of objects, and conjectures they are stored in-line in
       | the array. I suspect that it is actually achieved by the
       | flyweight pattern, where copies of the same immutable (reference
       | type) object are simply the same object.
        
         | owl57 wrote:
         | All the numbers in that array are different.
        
       | tehjoker wrote:
       | More people in the world than a uint32_t... never thought about
       | it like that.
        
       | anothername12 wrote:
       | Is this just tag bits in the reference pointer?
        
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