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Cuckoo hashing (en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by gull 3879 days ago
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Hash tables are data structures that map keys to values. Cuckoo hashing has good storage efficiency and predictable worst case performance. Simpler designs like linear probing don't perform as well as Cuckoo hashing when the table is near full.
Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?