Re: [Chicken-users] Good way to code the equivalent to this?

[Elf]

for an improvement in time (surprisingly), use

(define a
    (alist->hash-table
        (let loop ((i   0)
                   (r   '()))
            (if (fx= 250000 i)
                r
                (loop (fx+ 1 i)
                      (cons (cons (random 500000) (random 500000)) r))))
        =))

instead.  personally, id test both on whatever box youre running, as there 
are a lot more minor GCs this way.  the alist->hash has an interesting property,
though... the first value (if there are duplicate keys) seems to be the one
thats used, the others are ignored.  however, its a lot faster to build the
list than to do the hash-table-set!, interestingly.

-elf