I have been thumbing through an old Sun Common Lisp reference guide
and have come across a section regarding hash tables. I would be very
interested to learn how these are implemented (either in Sun's Common
Lisp or some other dialect). I am particularly intrigued by the
sxhash <object> function and wish to find out exactly how arbitrary
objects are mapped to integers. Further, I would like to know if it
is necessary for this facility to be implemented as a primitive in
lisp, or whether it would be possible to provide the same functionality
through a package written using alternative features.
Thanks in advance for any comments, pointers to reference material, or
direct answers....
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Steven J Haeck
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