The first time I heard about hash tables was after taking a compilers course during my BSc. The truth is, I was not able to understand and appreciate their usefulness fully back then. Now that I know ...

You take the data, hash it, modulo the hash to generate an index. The index is used on the array of pointers that points to another data structure, commonly a linked list.

That assumption refers to hash tables, and a conjecture based on work from the 1980s regarding the optimal way to store and query the data in them. The student, formerly of Rutgers University in ...

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

Facebook open sources C++ F14 hash table 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.