I too am suffering from very slow hash tables. I'm brand-new to chicken (although not to scheme) so it's possible that I'm doing something wrong.
The gist of the problem is: I'm using bignums (from the "numbers") extension as the hash table key; I created the table with (make-hash-table =); I'm reading lines from /usr/share/dict/words, and for each line, I'm computing a number, and using that number as the hash key, and the word as the value. It starts out storing perhaps 300 words per second, then gets progressively slower; as I write this, it's storing perhaps 30 words per second (the hash table has about 34,000 entries). I'm using version 212 (which I got from darcs), so I expect all the patches that have been previously mentioned have already been applied. I'm happy to make the code available if anyone's interested (it's small). Any ideas how I can speed this up? -- Paul Graham is right. --Shriram Krishnamurthi _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users