"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Well, now we know where half of Steve's bloat came from!
Seriously, what denominator did you have in mind for that 50%?
In recent 21.2's the lrecord header overhead is sizeof(long). That
means the size of a cons cell goes from 2*sizeof(long) to
3*sizeof(long). (it used to be even more).
Jan