FYI; the Guile schemers have had several discussions that may be of
interest to the Parrot personnel regarding copy on write strings and
shared substrings. Perhaps they thought of something you have not? I
imagine they must have a list archive you can find.
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
: On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:54:18PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
: > this approach saves memory, because you can create as many copies of a
: > string as you want, without allocating it many times. unless you modify
: > them, at least. it's also usually a g
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:54:18PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
> COW stands for Copy On Write. it means that when you have to copy a string,
> the "real" string to be copied (eg. its content, eg. the bytes) is not
> really copied in memory with the copy operation.
> rather, the new string is marke
Markus Laire wrote:
> I've been following this list for a month, but havn't yet learned what COW
> really means. It's used so often that perhaps it should be added to Parrot
> Glossary.
I'll give my try, but I'm no expert at all. feel free to correct me if
There's enough words and definitions going by that not everyone
understands that it's time for us to have a glossary.
I'm willing to do the administrative work of maintaining it, if others
send me entries.
So... if there are words you think should be in the parrot gloss
