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This article is brought to you by a shameless nerd snipe, courtesy of Pascal.

In case you’ve blocked Twitter for your own good, this reads:

There should be a post explaining and comparing smolstr and smartstring (and maybe others, like smallstr)

Well, I took the bait.

But, since this is me writing, I get to set the rules:

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