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stavros on Nov 2, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Naggum Nugget

You did "the experiment"? As in, you compared two specific implementations and came up with a universal point?

Your condescending tone would at least not be completely unwarranted if you weren't utterly wrong.

lisper on Nov 2, 2010 [–]

> you compared two specific implementations

Yes.

> and came up with a universal point

No. I got one data point.

Since there seems to be so much demand for it, I compared ALists and hash tables on Clozure Common Lisp. The breakeven point there was 20 items.

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