bearophile Wrote: > 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
Forgot to look that up after I had finished the article. Thanks for the links.
