6.81 LargeByteArray

Defined in namespace Smalltalk

Category: Collections-Sequenceable

I am similar to a plain ByteArray, but I'm specially designed to save memory when lots of items are zero.

6.81.1 LargeByteArray: overridden

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6.81.1 LargeByteArray: overridden

costOfNewIndex

Answer the maximum number of consecutive items set to the defaultElement that can be present in a compressed array.

defaultElement

Answer the value which is hoped to be the most common in the array

newCollection: size

Create a ByteArray of the given size