GNU bug report logs - #33653
27.0.50; Change Gnus obarrays-as-hash-tables into real hash tables

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 22:40:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 27.0.50

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: 33653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Subject: bug#33653: 27.0.50; Change Gnus obarrays-as-hash-tables into real hash tables
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 14:46:22 -0800

Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Here's the next thing: turning Gnus' obarrays-as-hash-tables into real
> hash tables. Gnus currently stores information about groups by coercing
> group names to unibyte, interning them in custom obarrays, and then
> setting their symbol-value to whatever value needs to be stored. I think
> all this was written before Emacs had actual hash tables.

Also hounding Lars for his opinion...
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