Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I don't think the current situation is very clean. It presents the
> possiblities of representations pointing to nonexistent strings and
> strings with no representations pointing to them. It means an extra
> step to remove the old string when the representation is updated. It's
> an extra step on every access.
>
> (I admit that the transition from two tables to one would be pretty
> harsh. I'm just not sure why we designed it this way in the first
> place.)
We didn't. We started out with one table, and added the layer of
indirection because it was easier for us to wrap our brains around
that way. (See changes around 2001-06-26 in the old CVS ChangeLog).
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Received on Fri Feb 21 17:47:04 2003