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Re: [Chicken-hackers] remove symbol extra-slot feature and add general s
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John Cowan |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] remove symbol extra-slot feature and add general symbol property-lists? |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:30 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Andre Kuehne scripsit:
> - performance: an extra-slot is faster than a table-lookup, which on the
> other hand scales
> better than a-lists.
Normally p-lists aren't that long. In the general case, a single global
hashtable has concurrency issues (not a problem, since Chicken doesn't
do native threads), and a hashtable of hashtables isn't that much better.
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