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Abolish string resizing

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Message #74 received at 70784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com, 70784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70784: Abolish string resizing
Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 20:29:05 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Which is why no one is proposing to make string immutable.  This is
> not what this proposal is about, and Mattias made a point of saying
> that explicitly.

The point is that CL string implementations are capable of modifying
strings in such a manner as Mattias proposes to "abolish".  I presume
some are implemented as Emacs's are, while others simply use a
representation for multibyte strings where all characters are the same
wide size (which incidentally there's nothing preventing Emacs from
implementing).

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