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Hi guys, have you ever wondered how can Python dictionaries be so fast and reliable? The answer is that they are built on top of another technology: hash tables. Knowing how Python hash tables work will give you a deeper understanding of how dictionaries work and this could be a great advantage for your Python understanding because dictionaries are almost everywhere in Python. Hash Functions Before introducing hash tables and their Python implementation you have to know what is a hash function and how it works. A hash function is a function that can map a piece of data of...
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A hash table is an unordered collection of key-value pairs, where each key is unique. Also, they are the most commonly used data structure for implementing associative arrays1 (maps, dictionaries).
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Read about how we implement hash tables in ClickHouse from choosing the right hash function, to managing collisions, benchmarking and designing an elegant API. All for the fastest hash table implementation possible.
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