[plt-scheme] Red black trees in PLT Scheme

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Andrew
Reilly<andrew-scheme at areilly.bpc-users.org> wrote:

> What I wonder, though, is: will this work at all?  Is the
> eq-hash-code of a struct stable across garbage collections?  I
> had assumed that eq-hash-code was somehow derived from the
> memory address of the argument object, but the 3m version of
> PLT uses a copying collector, I believe, so object locations can
> change over time.  That could result in the "order" in my r-b
> tree becoming wrong (and searches failing) over time.

I believe that the GC maintains a table mapping objects to hash codes,
and this is updated whenever an object is moved. I don't recall where
I got this idea from, so it might be PLT doesn't work this way and I'm
thinking of a different language implementation.

N.