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* Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>
> Then again, that might slow things down and it depends on how "tightly
> coupled" this routine is with the knowledge that the consumer will be the
> same old buffer every time as to whether you might omit it.

  It was an attempt to show how things could be used.  My purpose was not
  to post a function that people should stuff in their private collection
  of code gems and hope that it would save them someday, which I think
  "something like this" would have indicated.  I posted it as a function
  instead of these abominable patterns/idioms that people seem to like, but
  really, it was intended as nothing more than to demonstrate the use of
  displaced arrays and load-time-value to avoid consing up those arrays.

> The code I offered probably isn't strong enough to work in a multi-tasking
> application.

  I should learn to put in disclaimers like this, too.  :)

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