>Ok. I'll bite... what is a "tail merging string". And does this save
>space (as I think the name implies)?
Suppose you have two strings:
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If the strings can be modified, you need to store both.
If the strings cannot be modified you only need to store the second and
the first becomes a pointer into the second.
At this time also, all strings occurring more than once live in the binary
more than once; with const strings, you can optimize the binary so that
each string occurs only once.
Casper
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