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tptacek on June 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding tricks I learnt at Apple

I saw that. From the context of the article, do you think he was really talking about a system using perfect hash tables? Be that as it may, "use a perfect hash table" is rarely a good answer to the job interview question, which is the only reason I commented on this.

aaronblohowiak on June 10, 2011 | [–]

A really perfect hash table is just an array ;)

bricestacey on June 11, 2011 | [–]

Since they did load testing to optimize performance, I think his argument stands. If they didn't bother to optimize I would agree with you.

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