OK, I see. I agree it is a stupid thing to waste RAM for storing a whole lot of zeros. Efficiency and speed must be considered in every step along the way and this is one of those steps.

As you pointed out, this is really a "99.999% of 32 bit and 0.001 % of 64 bit" -type of situation, so maybe I should first consider using Buffer<T> instead of Vector<T>. This may be beneficial from multiple points of view after all...

Thanks for your insight.

BR, Tom