From: oleg dashevskii <be9-ml@...9.ru>
Date: 2003-09-02T17:21:31+09:00
Subject: copy-on-write in Ruby

Hello,

I've got a big object that holds references to other objects which,
in turn, hold references to other objects, which.....

Now I change this object, but need a possibility to revert the change. This could be 
achieved by deep-copying the object, but that's too expensive (changes
are mostly minor and 99% copy operations will be redundant).

Is there any simple solution to this, employing the copy-on-write
principle?

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