[plt-scheme] Weak hash tables

At Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:16:16 -0400, Joe Marshall wrote:
> Something weird is going on here.  Since a hash table is generally
> *implemented* as an array, how could it be *faster*?

My guess: one `hash-table-get' turns into three or four operations (a
`char->integer', a subtraction, etc.) to extract from a vector, and the
interpreter overhead dominates.

Matthew