Hash tables are heavily used within the kernel to speed access to objects of interest. Using a hash table will be faster than, say, a linear search through a single list, but there is always value in ...
On June 25, Matthew Wilcox posted a second version of a patch set introducing a new data structure called rosebush, which "is a resizing, scalable, cache-aware, RCU optimised hash table." The kernel ...
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 ...