[cells-devel] Optimized away/dying rules

[Peter Hildebrandt]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Ken Tilton <kennytilton at optonline.net> wrote:
>  I was not thinking about efficiency, I was thinking about (possibly!)
> cleaner design less likely to be midcoded: I want to get all the information
> about this hash key as a single logically related chunk, not pull in the
> properties of the logical chunk one at a time from different hash tables per
> property. Then I can pass this chunk around to other functions as one
> parameter, for example. But that is beside the point.

I came to understand that before I even read your mail -- and
committed the change yesterday already.  Now we're having a cons of
the link and the stored data in the hash table and a bunch of
accessor/setf functions which do the right thing.

I'll respond to the other points in a second.

Peter