So this was a demo paper, backed by their SIGMOD paper [2]. Interesting work. Their Epoch Protection kind of reminds me of the functionality provided by RCUs [3

So this was a demo paper, backed by their SIGMOD paper [2]. Interesting work. Their Epoch Protection kind of reminds me of the functionality provided by RCUs [3]. It is unfortunate that they do not provide comparisons with other hash maps in [2], opting for end-to-end comparisons with other systems, but that doesn't take away from their results. [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/faster-sigmod18.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/0... [3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt