On 2006-07-25, at 14:44, Christoph Bauer wrote:

>>
>> let to_array_4 t =
>>    let init = ref None in
>>    begin try Hashtbl.iter (fun k v -> init := Some (k,v);
>> raise Exit) t
>
> My guess: hashtbl has to loop over the first empty buckets.
> And this eats the cpu cycles.

I guess that's correct, since you're doing your tests with a
100000-sized hash table that contains only one entry. I wouldn't
call that a typical case.

-- Damien