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by dacapoday 164 days ago
I just tried building some immutable data structures in Go: (https://github.com/dacapoday/smol) a kv store base on cow b+ tree
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In-memory immuatable data structures seem to be only suitable for scenarios with large amounts of data and high concurrency. In most scenarios, this actually incurs a lot of additional copying overhead.