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Re:Brad Cox has died by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:49AM (#25880250)
> these strings were actually being used by the runtime to determine what to call

Fortunately it doesn't do a full string comparison - it just compares the value of the string pointers, I understand.

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Re:Brad Cox has died by saagarjha on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:48AM (#25880737)
Yes: selectors are interned.
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