From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a3b2101 1/2: New file with obarray functions. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20151111165602.28114.31123@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447292170 9621 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2015 01:36:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 01:36:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esperanto@cumego.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 02:35:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwgno-0000eS-H0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2015 02:35:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zwgnn-0007zG-Ln for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41957) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwgnR-0007z4-Q6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwgnO-0007HA-Id for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:29 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:32467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZwgnO-0007Gx-Ds; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:26 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0AxEwA731xV/8uQWxdcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0gDBAICgTw5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kLIgLCM8jAQEBAQYBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0FjDCoVCOCCQEcgXAggngBAQE X-IPAS-Result: A0AxEwA731xV/8uQWxdcgxCEAoVVuzcJh0gDBAICgTw5FAEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQMBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kLIgLCM8jAQEBAQYBAQEBHos6hQUHhC0FjDCoVCOCCQEcgXAggngBAQE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="177835511" Original-Received: from 23-91-144-203.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([23.91.144.203]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 11 Nov 2015 20:35:25 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B5914601E3; Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:24 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:28:18 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194185 Archived-At: > Hash tables are a lot newer -- for a long time, obarrays were the only > Emacs data type that did hashing. Of course, it's all relative: AFAIK they were introduced in Emacs-21 (i.e. in 2001), so they've already existed for almost half of Emacs's life. > Perhaps that is why obarrays are used in some places where hash tables > would be better. I indeed also believe that's the reason. Stefan