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		nandemo on Aug 3, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bootstrapping an Ultra Low Latency Trading Firm, P... Well, he didn't write about hash tables in this post... Anyway, even if there are good hash table implementations, sometimes you have to provide a custom hash function. A default hash function will not necessarily give you a table without collisions.

shin_lao on Aug 3, 2011 [–]

There's a teaser on the matter in the end.

You're right, generally the work revolves about writing the right hash function.

We'll see in the next article.

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