From: ts Date: 2003-03-03T02:49:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Is Ruby slower? >>>>> "g" == gabriele renzi writes: g> It seems that 1-at-a-time scales well, and that it is actually better g> than what we have in current ruby, at least it got less collision. Well, I'm not agree with you With the example given, OZ sdbm hash mesange% ./ruby b.rb 100 1 9999 100 999900 mesange% cat /tmp/col collision: 3187721 mesange% With one-at-a-time mesange% ./ruby b.rb 100 1 9999 100 999900 mesange% cat /tmp/col collision: 3195197 mesange% OZ has less collision when it work with a table based on prime numbers. g> And well, the perl guys won't put it in 5.8 if it was'nt someway g> better than the old :) Who want trust P languages ? Guy Decoux