Re: [Chicken-hackers] remove symbol extra-slot feature and add general symbol property-lists?

[John Cowan]

Andre Kuehne scripsit:

> - performance: an extra-slot is faster than a table-lookup, which on the 
> other hand scales
>  better than a-lists.

Normally p-lists aren't that long.  In the general case, a single global
hashtable has concurrency issues (not a problem, since Chicken doesn't
do native threads), and a hashtable of hashtables isn't that much better.

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