[MLton] bool array size

Henry Cejtin henry.cejtin@sbcglobal.net
Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:27:36 -0600


Using the 20051201 version of MLton I see that an array of bools takes 4
bytes per entry (plus the array header).  Why isn't this 1 byte?  Is this
part of the same problem that causes large array elements to always cause
an extra indirection to get to the element?