----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Harvey" <[email protected]>
> Okay, I'm confused, A hash value is an index into an array. If the > hash value doesn't fit in a fixnum, then the array doesn't fit in memory, > or even in the virtual address space (by a factor of 4 on a 32-bit > machine). > What am I missing here? Something other than the most extreme naive implementation of a hashtable, ever. :) It's up to the implementation to choose how it converts the hash value into a meaningful index (or perhaps something else). Cheers leppie _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
