From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: performance of converting alist to hash table Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:37:43 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040517233743.GA11854@fencepost> References: <20040516095522.GA1625@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> <4n3c5zj6eq.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084837831 3438 80.91.224.253 (17 May 2004 23:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 01:50:25 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPrsH-0007pK-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 01:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BPrsH-0000rV-00 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 01:50:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BProa-0001oX-GP for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:46:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPrkM-0000Ux-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:42:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BPrjf-0000Jk-BP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BPrg0-0007lu-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:37:44 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BPrfz-0003Ow-NY; Mon, 17 May 2004 19:37:43 -0400 Original-To: Ted Zlatanov Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4n3c5zj6eq.fsf@lifelogs.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:23606 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23606 On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:43:41PM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Maybe the equality test you are using is too slow? I think that's a good point -- specifying _any_ non-standard :test function (that is, anything except eq/eql/equal) probably slows down hashing quite a bit. -Miles -- Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space, to have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less, than nine score degrees, should he so wish. [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]