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[John Cowan]

David Rush scripsit:

> Well actually, after spending some time reading the Stalin source code
> (and seeing how well it optimizes this kind of thing), I actually went
> back to using lists of characters for a large number of string
> algorithms. It really is a very graceful way to handle strings -
> substring, insert, and delete all become *very* cheap. It's a paradigm
> I'm quite sure that we ought to preserve.

Merging characters with single-codepoint strings would definitely not
discard it.

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