[mercury-users] string__first_char

[Michael Day]

Why must Mercury strings be word aligned:

a) Tagging/data representation issue?
b) Garbage collection?
c) risc architecture restriction?

If it's a) or b), will the high level code/data grades permit new freedom
here? Otherwise it seems that working with strings will be uncomfortably
slow without dropping down to C.

Michael
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