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In practice Cuckoo sucks, b/c the reading from an unknown index in an array is not a const cost operation. It has an upper bound of course, but its average cost is quite different, depending if you are to hit L1, or L2... or just go for the a cache miss.

"Cache misses" is what dominates performance nowadays.



Where I go there are no cache misses (it’s in hardware)




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