> Would it help to use an eq? hash and turn all of the strings into > symbols (hopefully up front)? That might make the hashing part faster > in the best-known function.
Good idea. But unless I made a mistake, no, that's twice as slow, not faster. All the string->symbol conversions seem to outweigh the faster hash lookups. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users