alt Hacker NewsI like the exercise of trying to find the simplest reasonable solution to some problem.
Many of my toy and hobby projects are exactly that. Some make allowances for the sake of performance and generality.
The hash map, though, is up there with sorting algorithms in the breadth of wild implementations. Salmagundi is unlikely to be the fastest, or the smartest. But it’s cute and portable.
It's neat. I like it!
I edited my comment with some more questions, btw, likely as you were answering - apologies if that ended up confusing.