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From: "Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok@atlas.otago.ac.nz>
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To: ino-waiting@gmx.net, prolog@swi.psy.uva.nl
Subject: Re: String Representation

I wrote:
> Using a *single* atom to hold a string has the advantage that if there
> are several occurrences of exactly the same string, they will share the
> representation, so you can get less than 1 byte per character.

"clemensF" <ino-waiting@gmx.net> wrote
: that taken together with reference counting and garbage collection makes it
: "irresistable", right?
	
No.  It makes it a respectable design alternative that should be considered
for some problems when portability is not an issue.