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What If We Tried Less Power? -- Lessons From Studying The Power Of Choices In Hashing-based Data Structures

Stefan Walzer · Arxiv · 2023

In the first part of this survey, we review how the power of two choices underlies space-efficient data structures like cuckoo hash tables. We’ll find that the additional power afforded by more than 2 choices is often outweighed by the additional costs they bring. In the second part, we present a data structure where choices play a role at coarser than per-element granularity. In some sense, we rely on the power of (1+\epsilon) choices.

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