Re: performance of converting alist to hash table

[Andreas Schwab]

Dai Yuwen <address@hidden> writes:

> I use `mapc' like this:
> (defun convert-alist-to-hash (table  w)
>   (mapc (lambda (e)
>           (puthash (car e) (cadr e) table))
>         w))
>
> Almost the same time needed. (I made a mistake in the previous email, it 
> should be 30 seconds instead of 15.) 

How did you create the hash table?  You should probably start with a
larger hash table than the default to avoid too many resize operations.

Andreas.

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