[m-rev.] for review: mercury implementation of string.m

[Simon Taylor]

On 17-Jun-2002, Michael Day <mikeday at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> I thought the limitations of first_char on
> Mercury were due to alignment requirements?

No, it's because with many garbage collectors allowing pointers
into the middle of objects has a significant performance cost.

Simon.
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