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by lucacasonato 1655 days ago
Yeah, this is something we have been thinking about too. Something else along those lines would be read-only buffers, and with that a copy-on-write operation for buffers. They could result in a significant speedup for many operations.
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* a copy-on-write copy operation of buffers (that returns a read only buffer)