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Hi.

Yep agreed, I did I believe mention it is most valuable when you have mostly have creates & reads and less updates like in the example of web applications. Of course there are valid in memory level operations, quite famously in the Java world we have ConcurrentHashMap which is a CoW semantic. However naturally one size doesn’t fit all, but then it never really does :-)




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