cuckoo hashing

noun

Etymology

Referring to the behaviour of some cuckoo chicks, which push other eggs or young out of the nest.

Definitions

  1. A scheme for resolving hash collisions, using two hash functions instead of one, and…

    A scheme for resolving hash collisions, using two hash functions instead of one, and allowing a newly inserted key to "kick out" any existing key at the same index.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cuckoo hashing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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