[squeak-dev] 4.1 - hashed collections still a problem

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 22:52:24 UTC 2010


>From the Magma or Magma Tester projects of squeaksource, load latest
versions of these packages (in this order):

  Ma exception handling
  Ma base additions
  Ma special collections

sig's Dictionary's are under the "MaDictionary" hierarchy.  Good luck,
I think they're fantastic..  :)

 - Chris


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> i think that #pointsTo: is a cheat :), which you can use in Sets but
>> not dictionaries, because
>> it contains associations. Also, it works only for identity-based
>> collections.
>
> Dictionaries don't have to use associations (for example MethodDictionary
> doesn't use them), that's why #pointsTo: works (MethodDictionary also uses
> it).
>
>>
>>> I wonder how LargeIdentityDictionary compares to your dictionaries'.
>>>
>> me too.
>
> If you give me a pointer to the source code, I can run the benchmarks.
>
>
> Levente
>
>



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