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 kernel's "relativistic" (or "resizable") hash table implementation came into the mainline during the 3.17 merge window. These tables can be resized while still allowing concurrent access by ...
In the world of decentralization, distributed hash tables (DHTs) recently have had a revolutionary effect. The chaotic, ad hoc topologies of the first-generation peer-to-peer architectures have been ...