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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: alinsoar@voila.fr
Cc: "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: van Emde Boas hash.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvocmu3rmu.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28198774.21943071258893335294.JavaMail.www@wwinf4627> (A. Soare's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:35:35 +0100 (CET)")

> What algorithm uses emacs for hashing the obarrays of symbols ?

Read the source: C-h f intern RET then click on top right to get to the
source code, ...

It's a hash table with simple haqshing into buckets that contain linked
lists of symbols.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-22 12:35 van Emde Boas hash A. Soare
2009-11-23  2:25 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-27 18:01 A. Soare
2009-11-23 14:04 A. Soare
2009-11-23 16:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 16:57   ` David Kastrup
2009-11-27  9:04   ` A Soare
2009-11-20  6:41 A. Soare
2009-11-23  4:06 ` tomas
2009-11-23 14:39   ` A Soare
2009-11-19 12:04 A. Soare
2009-11-19 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 16:44   ` Deniz Dogan
2009-11-27  9:14   ` A Soare
2009-11-27 16:56     ` Stefan Monnier

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