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Re:It Can Happen to You by SilasX on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:31AM (#26342900)
And the analysis of hashmaps is not such a well-written guarantee -- as you resize, you need a bigger hash function output to reach all possible buckets. A bigger hash function output, assuming you have to keep the avalanche effect to keep output well-scrambled, requires more computations.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807739

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