HashBits, a lazy way

Bob Arning arning at charm.net
Fri Jul 11 17:32:41 UTC 2003


On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:13:02 -0700 Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
>I would point out that I was rather surprised to see a large number of
>Objects in the Symbol class var 'SymbolTable'. Surely just Symbols ought
>to be in there? Is this some sideffect of WeakArray?

That Object is the <flag> used by WeakSet to mark empty spaces. I was a bit surprised to see nils as well. Hmm...

Cheers,
Bob



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