* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:40:05AM CEST: > > m4: lookup mode 0 called 229730 times, 557880 compares, 348729 misses, 4672624 bytes Am I reading this correctly in that 2.4 compares are done per lookup? If yes, then it looks to me like the hash is doing perfectly fine. (But I haven't looked up what these numbers mean.) If you compare the first and the other runs, aren't you just seeing the difference that caching makes? [ coreutils ] > m4: lookup mode 0 called 2526799 times, 9834148 compares, 7470505 misses, 84329947 bytes This is still not bad at 3.9 compares per call. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
