On Jul 19, 2007, at 5:10 AM, sig wrote:

> its a scratch implementation of dictionaries using linked list of  
> associations.
> dont care about names, care about numbers:
> (code to run taken from MaDictionary class comment)

Interesting... but another set of numbers that matter are memory  
usage stats. Can you provide a comparison of the memory used by each  
implementation after the tests are run?

Also, you might want to look at the HashTable package on  
SqueakSource, which I suspect does something similar.

Colin