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: van Emde Boas hash. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <28198774.21943071258893335294.JavaMail.www@wwinf4627> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258943168 11667 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 02:26:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: alinsoar@voila.fr Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 03:26:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCOcq-0006tA-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:26:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOcp-00072L-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOcl-000712-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOcg-0006tn-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34101 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOcg-0006tk-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:49442 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCOcg-0007Kp-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:50 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAP6BCUvO+IIa/2dsb2JhbACBTdF8hDwEigI X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,268,1257138000"; d="scan'208";a="49822991" Original-Received: from 206-248-130-26.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([206.248.130.26]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 22 Nov 2009 21:25:42 -0500 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F1389B40C9; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:25:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <28198774.21943071258893335294.JavaMail.www@wwinf4627> (A. Soare's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:35:35 +0100 (CET)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117538 Archived-At: > 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