• kdb+

  Are strings interned in kdb too ?

  Posted by newstudent2017 on October 11, 2022 at 12:00 am

  I think the the answer is strings are not interned, only symbols are. But just double checking.

  newstudent2017 replied 8 months, 1 week ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  rocuinneagain

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  October 11, 2022 at 12:00 am

  Only symbols. You can view their memory usage in .Q.w[]

  • syms: number of interned symbols
  • symw: bytes used by interned symbols

  https://code.kx.com/q/ref/dotq/#qw-memory-stats

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