packaging of cluster - memory usage

After reading this article http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ on the elements of data filling in C, I started to wonder if LabVIEW behaves in the same way. In short, the order of items in a cluster can greatly influence the size of the cluster. For example, if you have 4 items in your cluster (in order) long, char, long, char, the memory requirements are 4 + 1 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 3 = 16 bytes. The two "3" byte are filling required for alignment of Word elements. If you change the order at long, long, char, char memory requirements is 4 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 12 bytes. The last 2 bytes are padding.

The article also mentions bit fields. It does not appear that LabVIEW supports bit fields. Therefore, if you have a number of Boolean values, you might be better off (memory wise) to store in a larger data type appropriate and pack / unpack them yourself. The trade-off is that your code will run so slightly slower.

I suppose that elements in a cluster, the tab order is the order that they are declared in the memory. Changing the tab order may allow the user to reduce the latter's memory footprint. This is especially important if you have thousands or hundreds of thousands of cases in the cluster.

Any ideas on that?

The information that you want are in the help to the title of "how LabVIEW stores data in memory", see section groups. The short answer is, it depends on what platform you are using.

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