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Having Swiss Tables (a more or less state of the art hash table for modern computers) is attractive but I think it'd be appropriate to be scared of unmaintained C labelled as a "proof of concept".

The CTL "unordered set" is roughly the same bad design as its namesake in C++, presumably on purpose. We really shouldn't be teaching new users this bad structure, nor the "security policy" mitigations it provides. And by the way it's not a "distributed" denial of service when somebody plugs 128 colliding values into your API, just a normal trivial DOS.




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