Re: symbol managment in Caml

[Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <sacerdot@students.cs.unibo.it>]

 Hello,

 I have had the same problem and I was about to write the
 new function when I stopped: the time taken by the hash
 function was not worth the extra coding.

 But I think that it's really a great pity that the
 standard library lacks such a function. Moreover, it
 should be really easy to implement it. Could we expect
 it implemented?

					Cheers,
					C.S.C.


On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 13:16:22 +0100, Stephan Houben wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I am writing an interpreter for a simple language in O'Caml.
> The interpreter often needs to search a hash table with a string
> as key. A common optimization for this is to use pointer identity
> instead of string equality, and "intern" every string before using
> it as a key to the hash table.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't see how to do this with the current O'Caml
> libs. You can do identity checks with ==, but there seems no way
> to get a good hash corresponding to ==.
> 
> Has anyone already written some code for this task?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Stephan

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