On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 10:06:36PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: > It comes really handy whenever you need to work with a buffer of bytes more than once. No extra objects created. > I think internally bash does have such things. Otherwise how could two strings be compared? > As an equivalent to ANSI C's memcpy and memmove in java they use java.lang.System.arraycopy For bash (well, more precisely for that Unix-y thing bash binds together, with all the textutils and binutils), the buffer is the file. Has always been. The interface is a bit different to your run-of-the-mill language, but then bash is Cheers -- t
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