DATA-ORIENTED DESIGN The hardware will thank you.

I was skeptical at first, but the author appears to have tested his efforts with real hardware, which of course is a core tenet of DOD. Also this is not a post about a new invention, but a set of results from tests where the author replaces a hash table with alternatives. It's interesting to look at the different timings, but remember to test your code and not just follow blindly, as you may have overhead somewhere else that makes the slowest in these tests, suddenly the fastest.

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