Re: [Axiom-developer] Spad and its object model

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:

| > | Global change to a hash would certainly cost us in execution time.
| > 
| > Why does that cost more than what you have proposed so far?
| 
| Lookup via hash vs. direct indexing?  Over millions of iterations?  Im
| confident the current implementation would win. 

Except that in the scheme you proposed, the result of the indexing is not
directly the operation, but another step must be taken.

| There has obviously been a huge amount of effort invested in getting
| axioms domain representation resonably compact and fast.

There obviously is a huge effort invested in avoiding to answer issues
I've raised.

-- Gaby