At Mon, 14 Mar 2016 19:59:51 -0400, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
> On 03/14/2016 07:53 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > [fixnum eqness is guaranteed by the docs.
> > [...] And keywords [are also guaranteed].
> > [...] [And] Booleans, void, and characters with a scalar value under 256.
> > 
> > Opaque objects like custodians and inspectors are also `equal?` only
> > when they are `eq?`, but I'm not sure if that's the kind of thing
> > you're looking for.
> 
> Great, thank you.
> 
> I am building up a list of things safe-to-use-eq? on because I want to
> sometimes skip expensive hashconsing-by-equal?. If I know that eq? is
> already the right predicate, then the value is effectively already
> hashconsed.
> 
> If there were a predicate `eq-applicable?` (or something), I could skip
> using a hand-coded list of special cases, and could systematically avoid
> the expense of hashconsing for a wider range of values.
> 
> Any thoughts on the possibility of such a predicate existing in Racket? :-)

That sounds like a good addition. I'll put it on my list.

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