Locale Improvements

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Locale Improvements | initial writing: 2001-01-02 last updated: 2004-10-26

Locales (symbol tables) have been improved in the following ways:

• | A locale can now contain an effectively unlimited number of names
| • | Locales now use space more efficiently (the more so for nearly empty locales) | • | `18!:3``` is extended to specify the size of the hash table for a new or empty locale | • | `18!:3``` is extended to create named locales (previously it only created numbered locales) | • | `9!:38``` and`` `9!:39``` query/specify the default size of the hash table for a locale

On starting J, after loading the profile,`7!:0` (space currently in use) reads as follows:

       1052736   J 4.05
        488064   J 4.06

Of this improvement, 300K are from locale improvements; the other 250K are from the reduction in space consumption for explicit definitions.

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