Hash tables are one of the oldest and simplest data structures for storing elements and supporting deletions and queries. Invented in 1953, they underly most computational systems. Yet despite their ...

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Abstract: Hash Tables are important data structures for a wide range of data intensive applications in various domains. They offer compact storage for sparse data, but their performance has ...

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A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew ...

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Linear Hashing is an algorithm employed in database systems to dynamically allocate memory disk blocks on secondary memory and store the incoming record in a constant ...

Abstract: We consider portable software implementations of hash tables with timeouts. The context is a high volume stream of keyed items. When a new item arrives, we want to know if has been seen ...