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How does rehashing occur in Swiss Tables?
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In Swiss Tables (used, for example, in hash table implementations in Go), the table expansion occurs by increasing the size of the bucket array and redistributing elements with new hashing.
A feature of Swiss Tables is storing metadata (such as hash checksums) alongside keys to speed up search and reduce collisions. During expansion:
- The table size is increased, usually doubled.
- All existing elements are rehashed into the new table considering the new size.
- An optimized rehashing algorithm is used, minimizing operations and copying.
This allows maintaining high performance of insert and search operations even as the number of elements grows.
Here is a simplified pseudocode example of expansion:
func (t *SwissTable) resize() {
newSize := t.size * 2
newTable := make([]bucket, newSize)
for _, bucket := range t.buckets {
for _, entry := range bucket.entries {
newIndex := hash(entry.key) % newSize
newTable[newIndex].add(entry)
}
}
t.buckets = newTable
t.size = newSize
}