From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T07:01:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically generate a symbol name

Gary Wright wrote:
> Hash table performance shouldn't be affected by size, that is the
> whole point of using a hash table.

Besides which any literal symbol references will probably be substituted
by a pointer to the hash-table element at compile time. The hash table
should only be used at compile time to provide a unique memory address.
Obviously not in the case of :"...#{}" symbols though.

Clifford Heath.