Yes but what jannik wants to say is that having slow dictionary in the image and fast outside is not really a good strategy.
Stef On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote: > 2009/10/20 Laval Jannik <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> Since some weeks, >> We use in our projects the project HashTable, available >> at http://www.squeaksource.com/ht.html >> It could be a good idea to integrate these collections to replace >> Dictionary >> and Set. > > I don't think that this is generally a good idea. It might be > beneficial in your situation, but certainly not for everybody in all > situations. I've been using the HashTable implementation in several > projects with great success. In other projects I've been using the > BTree package on SqueakSource that provides similar functionality > optimized for yet another context. These highly specialized data > structures should only be applied if they make sense in the given > context (and if you understand both, the cost and gain). I guess this > was exactly the reason why SkipList was removed from the Pharo image. > > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
