A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

Cat@ponder.cat · 17 hours ago

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

frezik@midwest.social · 13 hours ago

Depends on the implementation, but most will, yes. There are other forms of associative arrays, like trie or binary tree, but hash is the most common.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

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