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Re: RO-strings in Guile

Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

>     both should be marked as shared, so that if
>     either is side-effected, Guile will actually copy the string
>     first.

Hmm... does this mean that both will need to have a mutex, and that
one always has to lock this mutex before reading it?

>     This gets us the semantics of a copy, with the performance of
>     sharing.

Well, I wonder...

/mdj