Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing
3 days ago
- #performance
- #hash-table
- #benchmarking
- The text presents a series of benchmark tests comparing the performance of a Robin Hood hash table (RHHT) with std::unordered_map.
- Benchmarks include insertion operations, sequential and random lookups, mixed workloads (90% reads, 10% writes), and cache behavior tests.
- Tests are conducted for different sizes (1K, 10K, 100K elements) and load factors (75%, 90%).
- The benchmarks measure performance metrics such as items processed per iteration and memory usage.
- The code includes utility functions like generateTestData to create randomized test data for benchmarking.