January 23, 2004

M is for memory

The number one thing I hate about hash tables is that they eat memory. Especially when people include an oversized hash table as a speedup in a commonly used datatype. And even more so when it turns out that the average case for the datatype contains a single entry in the hash table.

*clickety-click*

Woo! 400K of savings.

Posted by matt at January 23, 2004 12:49 PM
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