worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (06/01/90)
From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) There might be a slight performance penalty associated with the way SNOBOL4 stores strings, they are all kept in a symbol table... That isn't really true. In Snobol 3, all strings were kept in the symbol table, but while some Snobol 4 implementations (the macro implementation) did that, others (Spitbol) only put strings used as variable names in the symbol table. Dale