Hi, nalaginrut <nalagin...@gmail.com> skribis:
> *string-copy is actually substring/copy, which is a newly allocated > string buffer. > > *substring is a copy-on-write version. And these two procedures live at a different abstraction level: the name ‘string-copy’ suggests memory management, whereas ‘substring’ suggests an operation on a string (which happens to use COW, but that’s an implementation detail.) Thanks, Ludo’.
