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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
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Subject: Snobol
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Date: 1 Jun 90 15:11:49 GMT
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   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