[mercury-users] How to make huge db in Mercury

[Ralph Becket]

Peter Schachte, Wednesday,  8 May 2002:
> 
> > or (and this may leave a strange taste in the mouth) use
> > io__read_from_string on a string constant.
> 
> Phtht!  I'm still shuddering.

It wasn't my idea, glad to say :)

> I can't see why there should be *any* runtime cost (not even GC cost)
> associated with constant terms.

True.  But up to now it hasn't been much of an issue, so it's a low
priority problem.

- Ralph
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