Subject: Re: String Representation

From: "clemensF" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:11:06 +0200

> Richard A. O'Keefe (Tue 16.0500-11:02):
> 
> Using a *single* atom to hold a string has the advantage that if there
> are several occurrences of exactly the same string, they will share the
> representation, so you can get less than 1 byte per character.

that taken together with reference counting and garbage collection makes it
"irresistable", right?

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