Separating a Hash type from Object

[Igor Bukanov]

On 07/05/07, Peter Hall <peter.hall at memorphic.com> wrote:
> implemented in Tamarin. ES4 is supposed to be
> implementation-independant. There are many factors that could make a
> feature harder or easier (or just more or less desirable) to implement
> in a given implementation - choice of GC seems to be a big factor in
> this instance, but there are plenty of others.

Yet ES4 adds intrinsic::hashcode which imposes more overhead  when
implementation uses GC  then a native Dictionary class. See recent
discussion about that.

So why it is so? I.e why rejecting Dictionary while requiring
intrinsic::hashcode?

Regards, Igor