Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote: > I am not so convinced of whether it makes sense to create a > gl_set/gl_map frontend for this hamt implementation.
Wikipedia [1] lists some advantages of HAMTs even without the persistence. > It is optimized > for the persistence (otherwise, use ordinary hash tables), while the > gl_set/gl_map interface is for destructive updates. How would a HAMT implementation look like that does not support persistence, but is instead optimized for destructive updates? Probably the reference counters would go away. Anything else? Bruno [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_array_mapped_trie#Advantages_of_HAMTs
