Re: whats the purpose of quark

[Binary Chen <binary chen gmail com>]

å 2008-01-23äç 22:09 -0500ïMatthias Clasenåéï
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:54 PM, Bin Chen <binary chen gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In glib there is a primitive named quark, it relates a ID with a
> > string, but whats the advantage for this? Can we use a string instead,
> > just to save some bytes for duplicated strings?
>
> It has the same advantages as string interning in any other
> language...

Can you give me an example for this?

Bin