On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:52 +0200, Till Varoquaux wrote:
> 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?

I have no idea because you can't.. what I did see when i tried
map terms to values (using hashtable) .. was a slowdown ;(

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