>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <xxxxxx@ai.mit.edu> writes:

Olin>    But I may be *wrong* seeing an opportunity for optimization where in
Olin>    fact there is none.

Olin> Hey, I just provide the functionality. It's up to the programmers to
Olin> misuse it well.

I just doubt it's worth the tradeoff.  Is there hard data that the
optimizations you envision actually give significant performance
gains?  I've always found non-shared strings plenty fast.

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