[self-interest] embedding based prototype languages

[James McCartney]

On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 10:24  PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:

> I've found it doesn't take much space as long as the number of slots is
> low(which is typical when using differential inheritance).

For what I'd like to do, which is flattening the parents, the number of 
slots would be large for the parent.

>
> But I'd certainly like to move to another technique if it's better.
> I'll run a memory&speed comparison if you send me a piece of your
> sample code(just the hash code) and post the results.
>

The Lua hash table lookup scheme looks pretty good. It is separate 
chaining fit into an open addressing. I would keep my load factor lower 
than they do though, to keep the chains shorter. I'd be curious how 
fast your scheme compares to how Lua does it.

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