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Re:Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) by 3cats-in-a-coat on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:09AM (#36561153)
You can have the benefits of fast save and load without having the same representation. Stream changes to disk.
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Re:Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures) by TazeTSchnitzel on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:08AM (#36571298)
Storing changes and the originals blew up badly for Microsoft Word in the late 1990's due to privacy concerns.
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