The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

The next evolution is to remove the node pointers, which transforms the implementation into a probing hash table (think dense_hash_set). The linked list is gone and replaced with an implicit list ...

People have been working on perfecting hashing since computing's early days. The result has been an almost endless number of hashing methods and tables. Facebook has faced this problem as well. Within ...