storing the hash multiplier instead of the hash value

[Fawzi Mohamed]

On 23-mar-10, at 23:07, Walter Bright wrote:

> Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
>> On 23-mar-10, at 19:04, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> What I'm pushing for as of now is to move the associative array  
>>> definition from opacity into templated goodies in object_.d.
>> that would be nice, that is one the main reasons Steven  
>> implementation is faster.
>> It would be nice if this would be done by the compiler as rewriting  
>> the calls as call to "normal" templates, i.e. to a specially named  
>> templated struct (AArray for example) so that (syntactic sugar for  
>> the name aside) that would be the same as a library implementation.
>> This would have two advantages:
>> - easy to replace the library implementation, as it would be even  
>> less special
>> - easy to replace the usage in one piece of code with another  
>> implementation (well truth to be told that is rather easy also now)
>
> D2 already allows this.

ok I did not know that was possible.