Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer scripsit:

> I agree with Alex on that simple hash table operations should not
> allocate though.  I would hope for an implementation of e.g. R6RS
> hashtables to only work with fixnums in its implementations of
> equal-hash, string[-ci]-hash and symbol-hash.

There is nothing to prevent an implementation from doing so.  My
sample implementation of SRFI 128 reduces lists, vectors, and
strings mod 2^20 rather than taking the risk of overflowing into
a flonum on Scheme systems (such as plain Chicken) where that is
possible.

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