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The whole "forest = knowing how a hastable works" is interesting! I'm trying to ascertain if the author's forest is a tree. I think there's good and evil in that statement.

Good being that its groovy if you love what you do are curious. Evil in that he could be optimizing the wrong thing.

Does every great software engineer have the inner workings of every data structure committed to memory? (I don't)




If they aren't committed to memory, performance is far worse, as fetching from disk is 10-1000x slower.




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