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> Am 18.12.2021 um 10:35 schrieb Po Lu :
>=20
> LdBeth writes:
>=20
>> It seems no one has yet pointed out "preserving EQness" is actually
>> hash-consing[1], a technique has been developed in Lisp and now well
>> known in Functional Programming communities.
>>=20
>> It has main features that:
>>=20
>> 1. Keeps only one copy of (structurally) EQUAL objects and therefore
>> 2. reduce storage usage
>> 3. reduce the time needed to do a EQUAL comparsion to EQ.
>> 4. useful for function memoization
>>=20
>> It is definitely useful, but I think we could make it into a =
separated
>> package, probably.
>=20
> I wonder how hash consing would make sense in a language like Emacs =
Lisp
> that has `rplaca' and `rplacd'.
>=20
> Perhaps we would need some kind of immutable cons data type.
>=20
We already have that: for example, the result of evaluating the form '(1 =
. 2) is an immutable cons cell. The immutability isn't enforced, =
though: passing such a cons cell to `rplaca' will cause undefined =
behavior, but typically not signal an error.=