Large Collections (was: [ENH] WeakIdentityDictionary hashing)

Brent Vukmer bvukmer at blackboard.com
Tue Jul 1 16:15:30 UTC 2003


> 
> I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the 
> LargeCollections package on SqueakMap.  It is a minor 
> refactoring of the growth related aspects of the collection framework
along with 
> a couple new types of collections.  It is designed to aid in working 
> with large collections (particularly the case where those large 
> collections start 
> to noticeably impact the performance of incremental GC).  

Stephen, this sounds cool.  I think that "Large Collections" along with
"Large Lists" should definitely be considered for inclusion in the 3.7
release plan, if someone steps up to sponsor them.



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