Sorry guys. This is maybe the 10th times that I send email to the wrong mailing list. Fortunately, I am subscribed to a limited number of them. Alexandre On 21 Apr 2009, at 10:20, Alexandre Bergel wrote:

Dear List,

This morning, Jannik and I were surprised by the class RuntimeStorage.

RuntimeStorage>>initialize: capacity

byGroup := Dictionary new: 24. byName := IdentityDictionary new: 10000. elements := OrderedCollection new: capacity

Why byName reference an identify dictionary? Why not a dictionary? Names are usually accessed through their name as a String apparently (e.g., importing Smalltalk packages keys entities with a String). Should entities be accessed through a symbol instead of a string?

If entities are stored in an identity dictionary, then names must be accessed with a symbol. If entities are to be accessed with a string, then a dictionary should be used instead of an identitydictionary.

Cheers, Alexandre

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