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Totally agree with the assessment on the open address/linear probe ones - easy to implement, compact, lower cache pressure.

As for the 2nd consideration - it's not fancy, too easy to implement, no novelty, etc.

The way I have dealt with the downsides of linear probe, open address: not well spread out lower bits - smearing/rehashing the hashes of the keys (via murmur3). As a side benefit it effectively randomizes the iteration order.




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