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<p>Our language of choice for bringing the worst out of the hash table is <em>Python</em>.</p>
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<p>Let's start by talking about the hash function and why we've chosen Python for
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this. Hash function for integers in Python is simply <em>identity</em>, as you might've
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guessed, there's no avalanche effect. Another thing that helps us is the fact
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that integers in Python are technically <code>BigInt</code>s<sup><a href="#user-content-fn-1" id="user-content-fnref-1" data-footnote-ref="true" aria-describedby="footnote-label">1</a></sup>. This allows us to put bit
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more pressure on the hashing function.</p>
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<p>From the perspective of the implementation, it is a hash table that uses probing
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to resolve conflicts. This also means that it's a contiguous space in memory.
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Indexing works like in the provided example above. When the hash table reaches
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a <em>breaking point</em> (defined somewhere in the C code), it reallocates the table
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and rehashes everything.</p>
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<div class="theme-admonition theme-admonition-tip admonition_xJq3 alert alert--success"><div class="admonitionHeading_Gvgb"><span class="admonitionIcon_Rf37"><svg viewBox="0 0 12 16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M6.5 0C3.48 0 1 2.19 1 5c0 .92.55 2.25 1 3 1.34 2.25 1.78 2.78 2 4v1h5v-1c.22-1.22.66-1.75 2-4 .45-.75 1-2.08 1-3 0-2.81-2.48-5-5.5-5zm3.64 7.48c-.25.44-.47.8-.67 1.11-.86 1.41-1.25 2.06-1.45 3.23-.02.05-.02.11-.02.17H5c0-.06 0-.13-.02-.17-.2-1.17-.59-1.83-1.45-3.23-.2-.31-.42-.67-.67-1.11C2.44 6.78 2 5.65 2 5c0-2.2 2.02-4 4.5-4 1.22 0 2.36.42 3.22 1.19C10.55 2.94 11 3.94 11 5c0 .66-.44 1.78-.86 2.48zM4 14h5c-.23 1.14-1.3 2-2.5 2s-2.27-.86-2.5-2z"></path></svg></span>tip</div><div class="admonitionContent_BuS1"><p>Resizing and rehashing can reduce the conflicts. That is coming from the fact
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that the position in the table is determined by the hash and the size of the
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table itself.</p></div></div>
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<h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="preparing-the-attack">Preparing the attack<a href="#preparing-the-attack" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Preparing the attack" title="Direct link to Preparing the attack"></a></h2>
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<p>Knowing the things above, it is not that hard to construct a method how to cause
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as many conflicts as possible. Let's go over it:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>We know that integers are hashed to themselves.</li>
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<li>We also know that from that hash we use only lower bits that are used as
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indices.</li>
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<li>We also know that there's a rehashing on resize that could possibly fix the
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conflicts.</li>
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<p>We will test with different sequences:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>ordered one, numbers through 1 to N</li>
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<li>ordered one in a reversed order, numbers through N back to 1</li>
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<li>numbers that are shifted to the left, so they create conflicts until resize</li>
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<li>numbers that are shifted to the left, but resizing helps only in the end</li>
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<li>numbers that are shifted to the left, but they won't be taken in account even
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after final resize</li>
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<p>For each of these sequences, we will insert 10⁷ elements and look each of them
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up for 10 times in a row.</p>
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<p>As a base of our benchmark, we will use a <code>Strategy</code> class and then for each
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strategy we will just implement the sequence of numbers that it uses:</p>
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<h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="sequences">Sequences<a href="#sequences" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Sequences" title="Direct link to Sequences"></a></h3>
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<p>Let's have a look at how we generate the numbers to be inserted:</p>
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<li>ordered sequence (ascending)<!-- -->
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<li>progressive sequence that “heals” on resize<!-- -->
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<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align:center">Technique</th><th style="text-align:right">Insertion phase</th><th style="text-align:right">Lookup phase</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center">ordered sequence (ascending)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>558.60ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>3304.26ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">ordered sequence (descending)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>554.08ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>3365.84ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">progressive sequence that “heals” on resize</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>3781.30ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>28565.71ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">progressive sequence that “heals” in the end</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>3280.38ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>26494.61ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">conflicts everywhere</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>4027.54ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>29132.92ms</code></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<table><thead><tr><th style="text-align:center">Technique</th><th style="text-align:right">Insertion (hash)</th><th style="text-align:right">Lookup (hash)</th><th style="text-align:right">Insertion (tree)</th><th style="text-align:right">Lookup (tree)</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center">ordered (ascending)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>316ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>298ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>2098ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>5914ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">ordered (descending)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>259ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>315ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>1958ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>14747ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">progressive a)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>1152ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>6021ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>2581ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>16074ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">progressive b)</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>1041ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>6096ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>2770ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>15986ms</code></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center">conflicts</td><td style="text-align:right"><code>964ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>1633ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>2559ms</code></td><td style="text-align:right"><code>13285ms</code></td></tr></tbody></table>
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