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From: Nordlöw <per.nordlow@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Length of obarray vectors
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 02:20:10 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9760b6da-3458-4fd3-9e4e-febd18a5060a@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3da94a34-686a-4aaf-a627-109fdbc9150d@v25g2000yqk.googlegroups.com

On Nov 6, 11:18 am, Nordlöw <per.nord...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What length should I use when I create a vector that will act as an
> obarray?
> My suggestion: The smallest prime larger than the number of symbols
> that should be interned?
> If this is correct why does (length obarray) give such a small number,
> 15
>
> Thanks,
> Nordlöw

It should be 1511, not 15.

Forgot one thing: My guess: Is it a trade-off of performance (big
length) and memory usage (small length)?

Thanks,
Nordlöw


  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-06 10:18 Length of obarray vectors Nordlöw
2009-11-06 10:20 ` Nordlöw [this message]
2009-11-06 11:16   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-06 12:03     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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