[m-dev.] For review: hash table implementation

[Fergus Henderson]

On 05-Feb-2001, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Thomas Conway on 03/02/2001 01:27:51
> > 
> > I[f] you have lazy lists, a good strategy would be for a "key-sequence"
> > getting function to return a lazy list of key-pieces. An adaption
> > of this to Mercury might be possible, but efficiency is probably
> > the key concern here.
> 
> About a year ago, Tyson and I discussed a pragma-initiated automatic
> laziness transformation which would do the trick.  However, other
> things have taken a higher priority, so it's still on the back-burner.

I don't think the strategy that Tom suggested is going to be a good
strategy anyway, even if we had lazy lists.

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