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On 8/25/2012 7:05 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> I thought Terry Reedy had shot down any claims about performance
> overhead, and that the memory savings in many cases must be substantial
> and therefore worthwhile.  Or have I misread something?

No, you have correctly read what I and others have said. Jim appears to 
not be interested in dialog. Lets leave it at that.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy