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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computing">computing</a>, a <b>persistent data structure</b> or <b>not ephemeral data structure</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=data_structure">data structure</a> that always preserves the previous version of itself when it is modified. Such data structures are effectively <a href="page.php?w=Immutable_object">immutable</a>, as their operations do not (visibly) update the structure in-place, but instead always yield a new updated structure. The term was introduced in Driscoll, Sarnak, Sleator, and Tarjan's 1986 article.</p>

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