Oleg,
Once again, many thanks. This is great info. BTW, i realized that my
approach has an underlying process algebraic formulation. Roughly speaking,
you can think of the mutable collection as a tuple space in which the names
of the tuple space are the mutable locations in the collection.
Greg Meredith wrote:
First, has anyone worked out a monadic
approach to copy-on-write? (And, Is there any analysis of perf
characteristics of said monadic schemes?)
If you use Zippers (Huet's or generic ones) with functional updates,
copy-on-write comes out automatically and by default. This
