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12 Oct 2024 01:15:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Haskell raving  
From: Warp
Date: 31 Oct 2007 18:59:30
Message: <472916e1@news.povray.org>
Tim Attwood <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> Data is automatically destroyed as it goes out of scope.

  But in this case the data is one big string?

  Someone else said that string are actually linked lists of characters
where each character is garbage-collected. This must require humongous
amounts of memory, especially considering that one character would only
require 1 byte...

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                                                          - Warp


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