“I pulled on it sufficiently that I can get some of the benchmarks to be faster… got a complete implementation that was faster on most benchmarks”

Peter Mattis, Speaker 2 · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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Implemented a Swiss-Tables-style hash map for Go, benchmarked it, and submitted patches via the Go issue tracker

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