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by henrydark 1269 days ago
Not to disagree, but to be fair modern fp runtimes use data structures that wouldn't have to copy so many bytes as the whole state.

A nice showcase of this idea is in Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente's CppCon '17 talk Postmodern Immutable Data Structures: https://youtu.be/sPhpelUfu8Q