Re: make-hash-table :size

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > i'm writing a program in emacs that makes rather extensive use of small
> > hash tables, about a dozen elemens or so. i'm going over my code again, to
> > see if i can improve things here and there, and i suddenly realise that
> > MAKE-HASH-TABLE takes a :size argument.
> 
> I wonder if hash tables are really faster than alists in this case.
> Have you tried both?

Well, it seems that yes, non-empty emacs hash tables are faster than
alists...

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