From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: esperanto@cumego.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a3b2101 1/2: New file with obarray functions.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:35:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbnb0ngt6.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ZweoM-0001bG-Jw@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 2015 18:28:18 -0500")
> 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
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2015-11-11 20:26 ` [Emacs-diffs] master a3b2101 1/2: New file with obarray functions Stefan Monnier
2015-11-11 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-11 22:33 ` Artur Malabarba
2015-11-11 21:22 ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2015-11-11 23:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-11-12 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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