Wonderful! I think I can contribute a different kind of brain surgery, I'll try to hack that together in a bit.
Martin McClure wrote: > OK, here's a filein that improves Pharo hashed collection performance > quite a bit. Large collections are much faster, and small ones are > pretty much the same speed as before. There are basically two fairly > simple changes; the basic structure and algorithms of the collections is > unchanged. The changes: > > 1. Spread identity hash values. > 2. Make table sizes prime. > > > File it into PharoCore-1.0-10491rc1.image. It'll take a minute or two > since it has to rehash the world halfway through. I don't know how to > make another kind of packaging that can do that, so I'll leave that to > someone else. > > After the filein, there are some test failures, most of which do not > seem to be *directly* related. I'm hoping someone that knows the > affected tests can take a look and comment: > > > Unexpectedly pass ObjectFinalizerTests>>#testFinalizationOfEquals > Not clear why, but this does not seem to be a problem :-) > > Fails HostWindowTests>>#testOne > But this test fails in the core image on Linux; HostWindows do not > seem to be implemented for Linux. > > Error on FontTest>>#testMultistringFont > Japanese StrikeFonts have nil characterToGlyphMap, > #createCharacterToGlyphMap answers nil, > not immediately clear how this is supposed to be initialized for fonts > with codepoints > 255. > > PackageInfoTest>>testKernelPackage > because some method in kernel package for Object is not in Object. > I've changed #hash, so that's probably it. > > Regards, > > -Martin > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
