On 6/8/07, skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 +0200, Till Varoquaux wrote:

> True, but the hash required would be unstable.
>
> Hashing or comparing using the value of a term as a key
> is no good. It's too slow.

Hashing doesn't read the whole structure, it can be parametrized to
read less data. Do you really see a performance boost using addresses
instead?

Regards,
Till

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