From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: functional hash operations
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:09:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38yy35pwi.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877kdoh78w.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "01 Jan 2003 22:47:59 +0100")
Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> wrote:
> Would it be workable to implement functional hash tables from scratch,
> without basing them on the builtin implementation? There are the
> functions 'hash', 'hashv', and 'hashq' to help with computing hash
> values for Scheme objects.
I think this is what I'll do. Given the number of associations in the
hash, how might I compute a good table size? Finding a nearby prime
seems not too easy. Are there other classes of numbers that also work
well? Say, (2^n)-1 or (2^n)+1?
paul
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-30 23:29 functional hash operations Paul Jarc
2002-12-31 0:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-12-31 21:26 ` Paul Jarc
2003-01-01 0:48 ` Christopher Cramer
2003-01-02 6:18 ` Paul Jarc
2002-12-31 12:38 ` Christopher Cramer
2003-01-01 21:47 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-01-02 19:09 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
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