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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

Share[expr]
changes the way expr is stored internally, to try and minimize the amount of memory used.

Share[]
tries to minimize the memory used to store all expressions.

Share works by sharing the storage of common subexpressions between different parts of an expression, or different expressions.

Using Share will never affect the results you get from Mathematica. It may, however, reduce the amount of memory used, and in many cases also the amount of time taken.

Try to minimize memory used in all expressions:

Use shared memory for parts of an expression that are the same:

For this expression, Share is not able to save any more memory:

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