Hi guys. I hope this is not a very stupid question. Background: in Fuel we have a IdentityDictionary where we put each of the objects we find while traversing the graph. We need to use IdentitySet because we cannot have repetitions (and to avoid loops) so we NEED to use #==. In such dictionary we put ALL objects of the graph, so it can be very big. Since IdentitySet uses #identityHash, it means it will be using those ONLY 12 bits in the object header. It means that we have 2^12 = 4096� different values.�

Question:� having explained the previous, I wanted to be able to use #hash rather than #identityHash since several classes implement #hash and hence I thought that using #hash I could have less colisions and hence a better performance. I tried to make a subclass of IdentitySet that uses #hash rather than #identityHash but my image freezes. I also tried something like:

set := PluggableSet new.
�� set hashBlock: [ :elem | elem hash ].
�� set equalBlock: [ :a :b | a == b ].

But it doesn't work either. I works with simple tests in a workspace but when I run the full tests of Fuel, it enters in a loop in the method #hash of Collection..

Anyway, my question is, should that work? if not, what is the exact reason?

Thanks in advance,

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