Judy Arrays is a modern associative array data structure.
http://judy.sourceforge.net/
They could be used as a drop-in replacement for alists,
which are unpopular with some people because of the slow
insert and delete times.
Pro: There is no beating judy for performance
Pro: The judy api is not profoundly different from the alist api
Pro: Judy is stable (no signficant changes in 2 years)
Pro: I could probably make a shim and maintain both going forward
Con: Judy is LGPLd, so I can't just drop it in epic5.
Con: Which I wouldn't anyways, because Judy is bigger than epic
Con: Judy is obscure and not widely deployed
Con: Judy requires GNU Make (epic doesn't)
What do you all think?
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