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You can store the strings separately and have the dictionary hold references to them.

Conceptually:

dictionary<i64, StringReference>

             |

             +----> "hello"

             +----> "a much longer string"

             +----> "x"

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Isn’t this just re-inventing the index arena pattern, which nullifies much of the benefit over rust?

> Goose code holds typed references where the equivalent Rust holds u32 indices into an arena — and it is where a good share of the benchmark wins come from.

In this particular case, you could make the values fixed length strings. Somewhere, performance and memory trades.

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