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

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/27/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

In fact, linear search through a list (or a-list) of limited length is
significantly
faster than hash-tables.


cheers,
felix