Persistence vs Immutability - What's the difference?
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The property of being persistent.
(computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
(meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.
(computer) The state of being unchangeable in the memory after creation.
Persistence is a related term of immutability.
As nouns the difference between persistence and immutability
is that persistence is the property of being persistent while immutability is the state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.persistence
English
Noun
(en noun)- You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
- Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.