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• when performing a substitution. Cost is proportional to the binary size of the data after substitution 
• when performing a spatial match - overall cost is an accumulated cost of all equality checks performed on all patterns against the data being matched. This is also the case when evaluating a consume or produce since this results in performing will perform a spatial match on data under channel in question in search for matching program consume or produce which results in COMM event.
• when stored in the Tuplespace - cost is proportional to the binary size of the data being stored.

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