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For questions about designing languages where data values are immutable and cannot be changed, or implementation aspects specifically related to immutability

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How can a compiler optimise persistent data structures to use mutable data structures "under...

Consider for a motivating example a copy-on-write array, which implements a persistent (i.e. immutable) array data type. … By eliding copies (where allowed), the "immutable" copy-on-write data structure is effectively mutable "under the hood". The above optimisation occurs at runtime. …
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