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hash table equality predicate [PATCH]

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 56199 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56199: hash table equality predicate [PATCH]
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:21:45 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org> writes:

> Even implemented entirely in Lisp it would be an order of magnitude
> faster (and actually correct).
>
> The attached code is not without flaws but provides a rough starting point.
> (This is not meant as a strong argument for or against adding it in
> the first place.)

I can't ever recall wanting to compare two hash tables for equality
(like, that's not what you use a hash table for), but since people have
apparently been reimplementing this a lot, then I'm for including it.

And the implementation looks nice.

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