Fun project - faster associative array algorithm

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/7/2015 4:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 4/7/15 7:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 4/7/2015 3:33 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Until that point, all these discussions on AA updates are useless.
>>
>> The data structure has changed before (used to be a binary tree) without
>> disruption and can change again.
>>
>
> Sure but there are so many gotchas to this thing. Multiple very smart, very
> competent developers set out to change the AA and failed. I would rather effort
> be spent focusing on getting it into a full-fledged library type with simple
> lowering for syntax, and then we can play with everything we want to do. At
> least at that point, there aren't special considerations to worry about.

Conform to the existing interface and it'll work.