Ehh, hash tables were invented in the 50s and were and are used wherever they ar...

boardwaalk on July 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: An efficient way to make hash maps with insertion ...

Ehh, hash tables were invented in the 50s and were and are used wherever they are useful. I’m pretty sure a running joke is that every decently sized C program contains a half dozen hash table implementations. They’re not recent.