Improving containers library

[John Meacham]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:19:46PM +0100, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:
> This is actually a pointer comparison. I believe it can produce false
> negatives though, because indirections are not followed. If that's
> correct, a false negative may be turned into a positive by garbage
> collection. So use with care.

I am not sure what your intended use is, but a less obvious caveat when
using this technique to replace a use of (==) is that (==) is generally
strict, forcing a whole data structure, while pointer equality will not.
this may lead to a space leak if you arn't careful. It may not be an
issue for what you are doing though.

        John

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