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<dthompson>new blog post: https://spritely.institute/news/functional-hash-tables-explained.html
<dthompson>not a release announcement or anything, but a (hopefully) fun look into functional hash tables
<dpk>it would be nice if it mentioned what the problem with the vhash is
<dthompson>ah, yeah
<dthompson>wellp
<dpk>i wish Scheme record types were better at declaring internal types and internal arrays, and using that information to make the memory representation efficient
<dpk>hash-based key value stores are awkward in particular
<dpk>because ideally you want to store the key, the value, (arbitrary pointers to Lisp objects) and cache the key’s hash value (a fixnum, hopefully)