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[skaller]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 23:46, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Jon,
> 
>  > Can you compute set union efficiently in eiffel?
> 
> Why not ???? This is a library issue not a language one.

Not entirely Some efficient algorithms require a garbage
collector. FPLs such as Ocaml and Haskell provide one,
Java provides one, C++ and C do not. This has a significant
impact on what you can and can't do efficiently in
library code.

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