From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: plists, alists, and hashtables Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:35:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <876150vwaa.fsf@mbork.pl> <873803x5q4.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87a8u7we9s.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <02f81836-554f-4bb4-873b-85c24e080e3d@googlegroups.com> <87614uqn5l.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87d1z2ukw1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <878u9pps1c.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87oailbn8t.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vbcto2ya.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87si7wtpib.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1438889796 27570 80.91.229.3 (6 Aug 2015 19:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:36:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 21:36:27 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1ZNQxl-0007Ir-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:36:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNQxk-0002qr-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNQxY-0002qZ-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:36:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNQxV-0002GG-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNQxV-0002F8-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZNQxS-000712-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from 157-52-5-248.cpe.teksavvy.com ([157.52.5.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:36:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 157-52-5-248.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:36:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 7 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157-52-5-248.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cG/E+PTth3jZEdL2+EPnujQZDNc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106297 Archived-At: BTW, hash-tables are currently used very little in Elisp. Several packages still use obarrays instead. So a good first step might be to go and change those packages to use hash-tables instead of obarrays. Stefan