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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Ann: Natools.Chunked_Strings, beta 1
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:27:11 +0100
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:26:29 +0100, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> 
>> This is very likely. But my concern was not performance, rather the idea of
>> having long strings. Since long text strings do not exist in "nature"
>> (:-)), nobody should like to have them.
> 
> Hmm. What's the average length of a DNA-string? ;)

Yes, this is what I had in mind when specifically indicated strings as
*text* ones.

DNA chain is not a text string. Furthermore it would likely have some
specific operations and a representation tailored substring search.

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