alt Hacker NewsThis is not true. It is fast as a general purpose hash table, but claiming it's the fastest across all datasets and workloads is silly.
This is not true. It is fast as a general purpose hash table, but claiming it's the fastest across all datasets and workloads is silly.
> claiming it's the fastest across all datasets
I never claimed so. Please stop stating I said something when I didn't.
> as a general purpose hash table
That's what I claimed. The question IS about hash tables. If you want a hash table of any content, it's impossible to get faster. Unless you check all possible keys at once - only this will get you faster.