This one might make you scratch your head a bit -- but learning about hash tables is definitely worth your time and effort.

Making fast hash tables in programming, which don't cause collision trouble, is one of computing's holy grails. Facebook thinks it's created a good one.

The Group-Object cmdlet can offer up lots of information if you extract that info through hash tables. Here's how. One of the greatest benefits of Windows PowerShell is how it lets us slice and dice ...

I want to have a very large hash table, i.e. so big it won't fit into memory. What's a good way to do that? I could use a database, but since it's only going to be key => value pairs that I am ...

Facebook has open-sourced the C++ F14 hash table. According to ZDNet, "The F14 resolves collisions (multiple keys that map to the same array index) by double hashing. Up to 14 keys are stored in a ...

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HashMap vs. Hashtable similarities Both the Hashtable and HashMap implement the Map interface and both share the same set of methods used to add, remove and manipulate elements of a key-value, ...

After looking at the recent GoLang update for curiosity, I noticed one standout item. GoLang now uses Swiss Tables for mapping. I'd not heard of this algorithm, so it took a bit of searching to ...