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Cuckoo hashing
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gull
10y ago
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todd8
10y ago
Hash tables are data structures that map keys to values. Cuckoo hashing has good storage efficiency and predictable worst case performance. Simpler designs like linear probing don't perform as well as Cuckoo hashing when the table is near full.
enginnr
10y ago
Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?
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