About built-in AAs

[Walter Bright]

On 8/17/2011 7:00 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:06:19 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
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>> Walter Bright:
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>>> It wasn't changed to simplify code, it was changed because it was faster.
>
> And uses much less space -- only one pointer per node vs. two.

Actually, that was a large factor in the speed increase.