Subject: Re: String Representation

From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:34:03 +1200 (NZST)

I wrote:
> 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.

"clemensF" <[email-masked]> wrote
: that taken together with reference counting and garbage collection makes it
: "irresistable", right?
	
No.  It makes it a respectable design alternative that should be considered
for some problems when portability is not an issue.