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	0	Collapsiv
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	3	Collapsiv is a methodology for allocating term data structures in a
	4	space-efficient manner. It implements maximal sharing in the same manner
	5	that hash consing does, but without the overhead of a hash table. Instead,
	6	terms are constructed on a stack, the bottom of which serves to persist
	7	term structures; this storage is searched recursively whenever a new term
	8	is created, and aliases (pointers into the stack) are returned when an
	9	existing identical term structure is found therein.
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	11	Coming soon to a repository near you - an implementation of Collapsiv in
	12	C89 (aka ANSI C).