Re: [racket-dev] Racket hash tables vs. Python dicts - Performance

2014-07-25 Thread Jake Eakle
This is probably not responsible for much of the performance difference, but the racket code has (random 23) where it looks like it ought to be (random 26), resulting in a smaller space of possible random keys. This will cause the branch with the lookup to happen somewhat more often than in the pyt

Re: [racket-dev] File is really large (> 5 MB), really open?

2010-09-26 Thread Jake Eakle
I would humbly suggest that this dialog should, in order of ease-to-implement a) display the size of the file, b) let the user know why they might not wish to proceed, and c) give some indication of how much memory they should probably have in order to expect reasonable performance. Jake On Sun,