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by wolco 2591 days ago
Go back to 2017. Mutable programming is back because of the benefits it offers
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An efficient immutable vector can be concatenated much faster without any reallocation of either array; one would probably outperform .push for bigger arrays in this case.
How is that true? push shouldn't be reallocating the array on each call. You seem to be alluding to a linked list of arrays.