Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Simply let lazy evaluation read the file as required, and the GC can 
>> delete the data you've already processed transparently behind you.
> 
>   That's not possible if the file is indeed read into one single string.

My guess is that internally it works the same way you'd do it from C: 
you read a buffer, walk thru the buffer, and then discard the buffer. 
There's no reason it can't work that way, just because it *looks* like a 
list of characters at the program level, any more than getchar() really 
reads one character at a time.

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