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Colin Percival colin.percival at wadham.ox.ac.uk
Sun Mar 7 11:45:42 PST 2004


At 19:31 07/03/2004, Narvi wrote:
>The *traditional* hash table is one that uses linear probing, that is, it
>converts a list to a nice cache friendly array and provides you with a
>hint where you should start looking.

   Does anyone actually do that any more?  When I absolutely need a hash
table, I normally use double hashing and gradual rehashing.  But maybe
that's just a personal quirk.

Colin Percival




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