Re: New shared substring implementation

[Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk>]

>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@nada.kth.se> writes:

Mikael> [I understand Christian Lynbech's point, but the vast majority of
Mikael> users want to have a simple system.  Those who want to use shared
Mikael> substrings for communication can implement a specialized data
Mikael> structure for this purpose.]

But would it be very hard to provide both? Ie. changing "ordinary"
substrings to share more (using copy-on-write techniques) but still
retaining the functionality of make-shared-substring under one form or
another?


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