Hundreds sounds about right, maybe up to a thousand.
But nobody expects that. Hashmap is supposed to be faster once you have, like, ten elements. That's what was promised to us.
Hundreds sounds about right, maybe up to a thousand.
But nobody expects that. Hashmap is supposed to be faster once you have, like, ten elements. That's what was promised to us.
Maybe more than that if you have a sub-optimal hash map implementations. There are a bunch of those floating around - for example, Java's build-in HashMap has traditionally been kneecapped by lack of value types, and if you are not careful you can incur 2x cache misses per lookup...
Same with c++ stl unordered_map
Yeah, I found hundreds surprising (although not on reflection).
Depends on comparison function. In clickhouse-c for type name lookup it's strcmp so I use generated hash table with no collisions & reusing cityhash function since we have it handy: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-c/blob/4bdd89a02438...
Benchmarked an order of magnitude faster than linear scan or binary search. I agree with your general sentiment tho, which is why I measured