Does D have "structural sharing" of immutable collections?
Roman D. Boiko
rb at d-coding.com
Wed May 23 11:53:45 PDT 2012
On Wednesday, 23 May 2012 at 18:51:32 UTC, Roman D. Boiko wrote:
> Immutable collections in most cases have the same performance
> characteristics as mutable ones. Space consumption may be
> higher, but not necessarily.
>
> Instead of mutating a collection, a new one is returned each
> time you add or remove an element. It shares most nodes with a
> previous one.
I've posted some links with information on this topic:
http://d-coding.com/2012/05/21/functional-data-structures.html
It is also easy to find other sources on this topic for those who
are interested.
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