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Re:FlexBuffers by senderista on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:00PM (#23594402)
This problem (persistent graph structures) has been solved since the 90s: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.478...
Re:FlexBuffers by kentonv on Sunday June 21, 2020 @03:54PM (#23594860)
This isn't a question of finding a magical solution, it's a question of trade-offs in performance, complexity, and usability that any solution necessarily imposes, and whether those trade-offs are worth it to support a feature that 99% of use cases don't need.

"Skyscrapers have been solved since the 20's" doesn't answer whether I should use steel beams when building a house.