On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:00:13PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > there is also intersection with the concept of "ropes" rather than > "strings" as I understand the term,
A rope is a data structure designed to make string concat an O(1)
operation, where you store a tree, or a linked list of substrings.
That isn't the case here - in fact, the string data itself is just
stored in here as a single perl string. The tags are stored in as a list
of [start, length, name, value] objects beside it.
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