C is Brittle D is Plastic

[Walter Bright]

On 4/3/2026 4:32 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> Prefix string interning, can't optimize the text segment so only one copy of a 
> given sequence of bytes is present.
> 
> As in: AB, ABC, ABCD
> Only needs ABCD in text segment.
> 
> Whereas: AB\0, ABC\0, ABCD\0
> Can't be optimized down to just ABCD\0.
> 
> Idk how much that matters, but that was the argument.

You are correct, but in practice I cannot see it being an issue, as it is not 
worse in any way than existing C string literals.