Re: hash tables by jay glascoe

[Neil Jerram]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> The projects page has an entry for hash tables by jay glascoe, but the
> link seems a bit dead.  Does anyone know the status of this?

I believe the work was never incorporated.  I recall a thread between 
Jay and (mainly) Maciej Stachowiak which went on for ever (but not what 
      the points of disagreement (if any) were).

> Some old mail suggests it was about resizing hash tables, which is in
> the head now so unless it is or was more then perhaps this entry can
> go now anyway.

I think the point of Jay's implementation was _automatic_ resizing.  In 
other words, it removed both the need to specify a size when creating a 
hash table, and the need for any explicit resizing calls (given an 
implementation which supported resizing at all) as entries were added to 
or removed from the table.

        Neil