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Thanks, but honestly I don't plan looking into the details.

I second what Schwern said in the SO discussion:

(Only try this if ) You profiled and found a problem.

It would need MANY "40KB arrays" to make this count on a modern machine.

Whatever a "40KB array" means, arrays hold refs to other types, it's totally unclear what is meant here.

This smells like a problem which is best solved with packing into a 40 KB string.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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