Re: GC: what is better, reuse or avoid cloning?

[Branden]

Alan Burlison wrote:
> Branden wrote:
> > Any suggestions?
> Yes, but none of them polite.
> You might do well to study the way perl5 handles these issues.

Perl 5 basically clones on every assignment. As it uses refcounting, it
knows it doesn't need to clone a string if its refcount=1 and it's marked as
temporary, i.e., only a temporary that will go away anyway knows about this
string, so it's guaranteed no other reference to it will exist.

- Branden