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Questions on implementation details and how the parts of Mathematica are arranged or configured to work. Avoid this tag for issues that are confined to a specific operating system.

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What are the main differences between RawArray and PackedArray?

What I know: PackedArray is documented (to some extent) in "Developer Utilities Package", RawArray is just mentioned in Raster3D and ImageApply, RawArray supports Byte, SignedInteger8/16/32, Bit16, …
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What are the main differences between RawArray and PackedArray?

The actual size will also depend on the system implementation (32- or 64-bit). … (Storing a Byte instead of a small Integer indeed saves a lot of memory (88% on a 64-bit system) but one would need additional CPU instructions in order to calculate with bytes.) …
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