Jesse Phillips: > I must not be understanding something in his use of immutability. For his > spellchecker example he suggested making a copy of some portion of the > document into an immutable data-structure so that it can be shared without > locks or copying. How is this better than message passing of mutable data?
To know the answer you need to know what a piece-table is, here you can find some info: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds/node15.html You can find the missing images here: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf Bye, bearophile
