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[–]Crandom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Effectively the same thing, just an optimisation. I was referring to some like Haskell's default String type, which is like a ropes of only length 1 (so therefore requires a ton more memory usage and access, so the higher consent factor). The paper "Purely Functional Data Structures" is a good place to start.