Comment by Joker_vD

> if you limit each string to be at most 256 bytes, then a string with only 10 bytes will waste 246 bytes of memory.

No? Unless you limit each string to be exactly 256 bytes but that's silly.

> If you limit string length to 32 bytes it will waste fewer memory but when a string longer than 32 bytes comes it cannot handle.

Not necessarily. The early compilers/linkers routinely did "only the first 6/8 letters of an identifier are meaningful" schtick: the rest was simply discarded.