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Re:I Wrote My Fastest Hashtable by 79d697i6fdif on Monday February 27, 2017 @10:10AM (#13744752)
realistically any hash table bigger than the 32 bit boundary will be well outside any CPU caches and possibly even ram. At these sizes the memory latency will dwarf CPU speed
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