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by Joker_vD 1221 days ago
Well, yeah, only there ain't any writes (and therefore, no copying).

The simplest example would be with linked lists, I suppose: you have a list A->B->C, then you take the B->C sublist and prepend X to it, so you now have X->B->C, but A->B->C is still around, and "B->C" part is shared between those.