Re: FreeBSD Most wanted

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote:

>
> And, yeah.  A hash table is really nothing by itself.  It's just a way
> of taking a long list (or other structure) and splitting it up into N
> smaller structures.  If your lists are never that long in the first
> place, there's no point.
>

URKH! No it doesn't. Or rather, it should - there are almost no good
reasons to use a naive chaining hash table.

>
> -Chris
>
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