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astrange on April 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Signed Char Lotte

I think I did pass an interview once by pointing out to a compiler guy that an array is just a hash table with the identity hash function. Which I'd read in the Haskell manual the day before.

saagarjha on April 2, 2021 [–]

I hope that’s not how you’re implementing your arrays, though!

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