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[AI summary] The article provides a high-level overview of hash tables as a fundamental data structure, discussing their constant-time operations, space-time trade-offs, and significance in programming languages like Python and Go.
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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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When people talk about "space-efficient hash tables'', they are usually talking about the following type of guarantee: If we are storing $latex n$ keys, each of which are $latex w$ bits, then the total space usage should be $latex (1 + \epsilon)wn$ bits for some small $latex \epsilon$. But, what if I told you we...
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In which I steadily reduce the size of the git-req Rust binary by applying various optimizations.
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