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From: Paul Rubin on 30 Jun 2010 15:17
Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp(a)snipabacken.se> writes:
> It's somewhat believable. If I handled thousands of student names in a
> big C array char[30][], I would resent the fact that 1/30 of the
> memory was wasted on NUL bytes.

But you'd be wasting even more of the memory on bytes left unused when
the student's name is less than 30 chars. If memory is that scarce you
need a different representation.
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