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Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by pipeep on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:27PM (#22006572)
If the data structure has a reference count of one, you can safely mutate the data structure instead. Many persistent immutable data structure libraries use this as an additional optimization.
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