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Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.CS.Arizona.EDU; Thu, 27 May 1993 18:07:47 MST
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Date: Thu, 27 May 93 18:17:08 EDT
From: Paul_Abrahams@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Message-Id: <668400@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu>
Subject: String uniqueness
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Does the Icon implementation store strings uniquely? I'm interested
in knowing because it clearly affects the speed of string comparison
and therefore the strategy for storing "symbols". If they are stored
uniquely, I assume, string comparison is just comparison of a single
pointer; if not, it requires scanning the strings character by character.
Paul Abrahams
reply to: abrahams@acm.org