You’re right but people don’t care. That’s why you’re getting downvoted. In any case it’s not like it matters, does a slogan or code of conduct actually stop a company from doing shady shit? Anyone that brings it up is just doing so because they don’t really understand the situation.

you’ve misunderstood what I’ve said, but whatever.

Tiny Pointers was the paper that the student read to get the idea. The paper he co-authored was “Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering”

the reason it confused me is because the college student was clearly using the algorithm to accomplish his task, not just theoretically designed. So it didn’t seem to be a small improvement that would only be noticeable in certain situations.

I’m not smart enough to understand the papers so that’s why I asked.

This is incredible, but why does the article end by stating that this might not have any immediate applications? Shouldn’t this immediately result in more efficient hash tables in everyday programming languages?

Don’t go blaming your inability to have empathy on adhd. That is in absolutely no way connected. You’re just a rude person.

Programming.dev does this and is the tenth largest instance.