A simple hash table in C

• QEMU

  54 8,623 9.9 C

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  I've had lately a look at QEMUs internals and saw their thread safe implementation of a hash table, capable of concurrent reads: qht [0].

  If the author sees this, you might want to take a look at it.

  [0] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/util/qht.c

• smol_world

  3 81 10.0 C++

  Compact garbage-collected heap and JSON-like object model

  Thank you for this article.

  I have been working on trying to design a contiguous hash table data structure that has these two mutual requirements:

  a) allows deep clones (due to contiguous memory copyable with memcpy)

  b) supports arbitrarily nestable hashmaps

  The closest library I know about is smolworld ( https://github.com/snej/smol_world ) but I don't know how easy it can be cloned.

  These requirements rules out multiple mallocs: I do one single malloc and expect that to be enough for the entire hashmap.

  I'm not sure if these constraints might also force a fixed number of buckets and a fixed capacity.

  The clonable property requires interior mutability be limited, because if you memcpy pointers they would cause structure sharing, that I'm trying to avoid, hence a deep clone.

  Rationale: these are the use cases I have for such a data structure. The first is cheap copy on write. I also have a left-right concurrency hashmap, but I feel the properties of this data structure are even better. The first is a sharding in multithreading design: do a cheap memcpy for each thread and shard the processing and merge at the end, without any synchronization cost while the threads are working. I know that deep cloning is slow in Java if you do it with loops rather than memcpy. Another use case is efficient serialization.

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• Klib

  5 3,920 0.0 C

  A standalone and lightweight C library

• sc

  2 2,113 0.0 C

  Common libraries and data structures for C.

• uthash

  2 3,753 0.0 C

  C macros for hash tables and more

• ctl

  7 147 0.0 C

  My variant of the C Template Library (by rurban)

  search for htable or hashtable in thousands of open source projects. only a minority has worse hashtables than this one (clisp, perl5 e.g.).

  For better ones I would point to my linked list implementation: https://github.com/rurban/ctl/blob/master/ctl/unordered_set.... (because it has various security policies, nobody else has)

• swiss-table

  1 9 0.0 C

  C adaptation of the swiss table (flat hash map) presented at CppCon by Google (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHmEUmJZf4).

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