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Subject: Does network data really cons strings?
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I was a bit surprised to see that network data (or any data received
from processes) conses Lisp strings.

Is it just a quirk of `memory-use-counts' or is it for real?  Why does
it need to cons Lisp strings if the data is only inserted in a buffer?